§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER, in moving for the appointment of a Select Committee on Public Accounts, said that the object of the Committee would be to revise the accounts of the public expenditure after they had gone through the regular process of examination in the hands of the executive Government. That was obviously the true completion of the duty of that House with regard to the public money. The Committee on Public Monies which sat two or three years ago had made this recommendation, and made it unanimously. He should, therefore, move that a Select Committee be appointed for the examination from year to year of the audited accounts of the public expenditure; and if that Motion was adopted, he would on a future day move that a Committee of that nature be appointed at the commencement of every Session; and, likewise, that the order for the appointment of that Committee be made a standing order of the House.
§ Motion agreed to.
§ Select Committee appointed, "For the examination from year to year of the Audited Accounts of the Public Expenditure."
§ House adjourned at a quarter before One o'clock.