§ LORD BLYTHSWOODMy Lords, I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War when he will give effect to his promise of conferring warrant rank on sergeant majors of Militia; and when the additional allowance for quartermasters of embodied Militia will be authorised.
§ THE MARQUESS OF LANSDOWNEAs regards the first part of the question, some time has necessarily been taken up in considering the changes in rates of pay and pension which will accompany the grant of warrant rank to sergeant-majors, of Militia. We shall, I hope, very shortly be in a position to issue an Army Order on the subject. As regards the second part of the question, the regulation making the grant referred to to Militia adjutants and quartermasters has, I believe, already appeared.