§ MR. DELANY (Queen's County, Ossory)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether a claim has been lodged by or on behalf of the parents of the late Trooper C. V. Freer, for payment of bounty due to him upon enlistment in the 74th Company Imperial Yeomanry, and also for three months pay due to him at the time of his death, viz. 14th April, 1902, as trooper in the Cape Mounted Specials, to which he was transferred; and, if so, will he say whether such claim has been investigated, and what decision has been arrived at.
LORD STANLEYThe bounty was duo on discharge and not on re-enlistment. The claim for its payment is now under investigation and may involve reference to South Africa. The claim for the three months pay can only be adjusted locally, and application should be made to the Master of the High Court at Kimberley.