§ MR. PATRICK O'BRIEN (Kilkenny)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for war whether it has come to the 626 knowledge of the War Office that a boy named John Smith, under fifteen years of ago, enlisted in the Meath Militia in April last without his parents' consent, and that his father has since appealed for his son's discharge; and whether he will see that the boy is discharged.
§ *MR. WYNDHAMThe officer commanding the regimental district is authorised to discharge a recruit who is under seventeen years old if his parents apply for his discharge, and prove his age by furnishing a certificate of birth.
§ MR. PATRICK O'BRIENWill this boy be discharged?
§ *MR. WYNDHAMI will see into that.