§ MR. DEEDESsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for India, Whether he is enabled to fix a more decided time for the settlement and distribution of the Delhi and Lucknow Prize Money than he did on the 3rd of August last year, and again at the commencement of the present Session, and what is now the cause of the delay?
§ MR. SCHOLEFIELDsaid, he wished to ask if there are any medals granted for Military Services in India still undistributed? The reason he asked the question was that one of his constituents in Birmingham, who had been attached to the Sappers and Miners in India, had received neither Medal nor Prize Money.
§ SIR CHARLES WOODsaid, he was not able to fix any period relative to the distribution of the Delhi Prize Money. The Government of India would lose no time in preparing the rolls preparatory to the payment. In answer to the question of the hon. Member for Birmingham, he was not aware whether there were any medals undistributed or not. Perhaps, however, the constituent of the hon. Gentleman had not applied to the right office.
§ MR. DEEDESsaid, if no person more competent to do so should take up this subject next Session he would call attention to the mode in which Prize Money is issued, and the delays which take place in the same, and move for an inquiry, with a view to a better system being adopted.