§ Mr. LUNDONasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that printed Regulations as to the promotion of writers to abstractorships were issued in 1891 by the Civil Service Commissioners, with the sanction of the Treasury, to the various Government Departments in which writers were employed, stating the conditions as to examination, salary, and annual leave as abstractors, and stipulating that retirement would be compulsory on attaining the age of sixty-five; and will he say to what extent, if (any have those Regulations been since modified?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEI have not been able to identify the printed regulations of the Civil Service Commissioners referred to.