Moreover, the Apportionment Act 1870 provides that salaries “shall be considered as accruing from day to day, and shall be apportioned in respect of time accordingly." Therefore it would appear that a pro rata share of a salary would be recoverable by an employee m the event of only partial completion of, say, a year's contract. The Act, however, does not refer specifically to wages, which may suggest that Parliament did not intend manual workers to be included in the legislation, and the only guidance from the courts, in 1921, appears to support this view.