§ MR. WEIRTo ask the Secretary of State for India if he, will state the sums paid to the auditor of the Indian home accounts for salary and allowances respectively during the period that he has been in the India Audit Office; and what was the maximum salary to be paid to him under the conditions on which he entered.
(Answered Secretary Lord George Hamilton.) The present auditor's scale of salary 1478 on first appointment to the Audit Office in 1860 was £100, rising by £10 annually to £250; in 1863 his maximum salary was raised to £450. In December, 1868. he was made junior inspector, with the prospect of rising to £500, which was subsequently increased to £600, to which a personal allowance of £100 was added in 1882. In October, 1892, he was appointed assistant to the auditor, the scale of salary being £700, rising by £25 annually to £800, retaining his personal allowance. In January, 1895, he was appointed auditor, salary £1,000. The salary of the post was increased to £1,200 in February, 1900.