§ SIR DENHAM NORREYSsaid, he would now beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, when the Supplemental Estimate for the Ordnance Survey of Scotland will be presented to the House, and whether any orders or instructions have been issued to the Ordnance Department in respect of the scale on which the Survey of Scotland and England is to be drawn in future?
MR. WILSONsaid that, in reply to the first question, he believed the Estimate would be presented to the House within a fortnight. With regard to the second question of the hon. Baronet, he begged to state that, after the decision at which the House arrived the other evening, the Treasury received from the Ordnance Department a letter requesting to be informed what course they should pursue. The Treasury replied to the effect, that in accordance with the decision of the House, all future works which were not now actually commenced must be drawn upon the six-inch scale, and so long as the House continued to entertain its present views, that course would be implicitly followed. In order, however, that hon. Members might be satisfied on the subject, he had moved for the production of the letter from the Ordnance Department, and the reply of the Treasury, and he believed they would be in the hands of hon. Members to-morrow morning.