§ MR. BUXTONsaid, he rose to ask the Secretary of State for India, What amount of pension has actually been paid over to the Mysore Princes in each of the last seven years?
§ SIR CHARLES WOODsaid, that the following entries appeared in the accounts which had been annually submitted to Parliament. In 1853–4, "Appropriated by the Treaty of Mysore for the maintenance of the families of Hyder Ali and Tippoo Sultan," £70,000; in 1854–55, the same sum of £70,000. In 1855–56, come, for the first time, the actual payments, namely, in that year £20,006; in 1856–57, £29,177; in 1857–58, £104,718; in 1858–59, £55,701; in 1859–60, £28,022; the average of those five years being £47,524. For the year 1860–61, that was to say the current year, as far as it had gone, the estimated payment was £54,000: and that would have to be increased before the close of the year by £12,000; so that the total of the year would be £66,000. In that sum was included the salaries of superintendents and other officials; and, as he had before stated, the ultimate permanent income of the members of these families would be £17,106.