§ SIR HARRY VERNEYsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for India, Whether interest is paid by the Calcutta Treasury on the Prize Money paid into it; whether any interest is paid on Jewels and other Booty before it is realized; and whether, in future, when booty is taken in India, which it is anticipated will be Prize, Officers in command of Corps are to send in at once the nominal roll, without waiting for the Royal Warrant declaring such Booty to be Prize?
§ SIR CHARLES WOODsaid, that interest was paid on prize money in the Treasury at Calcutta at the rate of 5 per cent. No interest was paid on jewels or property not in the state of money. He could not say when the payment of interest on the money would cease, or whether in- 1252 terest would be paid on jewels, &c, when realized. No notice had been given of those questions, and it was impossible for him to answer in detail questions of this kind without the opportunity of informing himself. With regard to the preparation of prize rolls, Officers in India had been desired as regarded the present prize to prepare them some time ago, and directions had been given that for the future prize rolls should be made out without waiting for the declaration of prize.