§ CAPTAIN NORTONI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether it is the intention of the Treasury that in any case where a senior assistant clerk has reached £120, but his official superior is unwilling to certify that he is possessed of especial merit to entitle him to receive the additional increment of £2 10s., that this unwillingness should also affect the ordinary increment of £2 10s., which up to that time he had continuously received, and for which his official superior has already certified.
§ MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAINIf the official superior certifies to the abstractor's "especial merit," he will get the higher increment. If the certificate is of ordinary good conduct, he will get the ordinary increment. If the certificate is not satisfactory, then he will get no increment at all.