§ Mr. FIELDasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether Section 4 of the Superannuation Act, 1859, under which, in computing the amount of superannuation allowance, seven years were added to the years of service of a full-time professor in the Royal College of Science, London, and in the sister college in Dublin, when these institutions were under the control of the Department of Science and Art, still applies to the professors in the Dublin College now that it is under the Irish Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSESection 4 of the Superannuation Act, 1859, still applies to the professors in question. But, in accordance with a Treasury Minute of 1st July, 1910, which was laid before Parliament on 27th July, 1910, the added years attached to certain of these offices before the transfer of the Royal College to the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction, will not be granted to persons appointed after the date of the Treasury Minute.