§ Mr. DORISasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether the conditions of appointment fixed by the Treasury in 1891 in respect to compulsory retirement at the age of sixty-five, and of counting for pension only one-half of unestablished service in the case of men writers or copyists promoted to abstractorships under Clause7 of the Order in Council of 4th June, 1870, remained the same for those who were promoted to the abstractor class in the years 1891 to 1894 and thereafter; and, if not, will he state the extent of the Treasury alteration in these two conditions, and when they were made?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEI am net aware of any alterations of general application, but if the hon. Member is interested in2630W any particular case the officer concerned can obtain the necessary information by referring to the head of the Department in which he is serving.