§ MR. THORNTONTo ask the Secretary to the Treasury, in view of the fact that service rendered by certificated temporary clerks prior to 19th August, 1871, has been considered by the Government as equivalent to registered copyists' service for the purposes of the Treasury Minute of December, 1886, for bonus and gratuity on retirement, whether such service will be considered also equivalent to temporary copyists' service for the purposes of the Treasury Minute of 1st June, 1882; if not, and in view of the fact that both the temporary clerks and temporary copyists entered the service under the same conditions as to pension, and that the service of the temporary clerks commenced at a date even prior to that of the temporary copyists, whether such cases will be dealt with under Clause 3 of the Superannuation Act of 1887.
93 (Answered by Mr. Victor Cavendish.) The operation of the Treasury Minute of the 1st June, 1882, is expressly limited to the class known as "Writers," and I see no ground for extending it to other classes. As regards the application of Section 3 of the Superannuation Act of 1887, I am unable to make any general statement. Every case must be considered on its merits.