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Show Pay ol Army OUicers. " Wellington, 29. The army pay bill introduced by Banning, fixes the annual pay of officers of the army as follows: Tho general, $10,000 a vear; lieutenant general, fS.OOO; major general, $6,000; brigadier general, $J,000; colonel, fj,000; lieuteoaut colonel, $ii,5u0; major $2,000; captain (mounted) $1,800; captain (not mounted) $1,600; first lieutenant (mounted) $1,200; second lieutenant (not mounted) $1,000; ordnance etjrefceepr, $1,600, Other changes are al;o made. It increase the total pay of non-commissioned officers about $-5, 000, a yar but this will be much more than compensated by the reduction in the number of those men provided for in General Banning's bill to reorganize the army. Ihe two bills reduce the cost of the army between $3,000,000, and 6,000,000. |