§ MR. MEEHANI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury if it was with the knowledge and sanction of the Chairman and Board of Inland Revenue that the regulations were departed from in 448 the case of the supervisor of Inland Revenue who was promoted from a lower to a higher class recently over more than one hundred of his seniors; and will he explain why, when this officer was first appointed to a district at Salisbury, he lid not proceed there according to rule, but was allowed to remain at the chief office until a vacancy had been created at Stratford, to which, on the recommendation of the chief inspector, he was appointed.
§ MR. MCKENNAThe circumstances referred to in this Question took place in December, 1903, and were as follows:—After the assignment of the supervisor in question to the Salisbury district, it was found that it would be a more advantageous arrangement to appoint him to the new district in Stratford, and this was accordingly done—of course with the knowledge and sanction of the Board of Inland Revenue.