An Act to facilitate improvements in the Organisation of the Admiralty and War Office by the retirement of Clerks from certain of the Civil Departments thereof.
WHEREAS by an Order of Her Majesty the Queen in Council, dated the twelfth day of February one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, a lower division of clerks in the permanent Civil Service of the State was constituted, and it was further ordered therein that no department throughout Her Majesty's Civil Service should be permanently increased or regulated afresh without providing for the introduction of a system whereby such of its duties as were of a suitable character should be performed...