§ CAPTAIN NORTON (Newington, W.)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury if he can state the total number of senior 27 assistant clerks (abstractor class) and the number serving in the various offices; also the number of the promotions of senior assistant clerks (abstractor class) to the second division, under Clause 15 of the Order in Council of 29th December, 1898, and the names of the offices in which such promotions occurred.
(Answer.) 574 persons have been certificated as old (not senior) assistant clerks. I am unable to say how many of these are still serving. They were assigned to thirty-eight various public departments. Ninety-eight of them have been promoted to the second division. I cannot give the other particulars asked for without detailed inquiry in all the offices concerned; nor do I think that, if given, they would serve any useful purpose.—(Treasury.)