§ MR. COURTENAY WARNERI beg to ask the Secretary of State for War if old soldiers who had bought their discharge and have joined the Royal Reserves are to be given back two-thirds of the money they paid for their discharge besides the £22 bounty, whereas old soldiers who after leaving the Army joined the Militia are only to get £5 bounty altogether.
* MR. J. POWELL-WILLIAMSThe old soldiers who purchased their discharge 683 and joined the Royal Reserve will have the usual proportion of their purchase money refunded to them, as in the case of ordinary re-enlistments. Old soldiers who have purchased their discharge and have joined the Militia are similarly entitled to a refund of purchase-money if their corps is embodied. On disembodiment they will receive a gratuity varying according to the period of embodiment, but amounting in no case to less than £5 3s. 6d.