LORD STANLEYsaid, he rose to ask the Secretary of State for India, Whether it is true that the Private Soldiers of the Malwa Field Force, which afterwards formed the first Brigade of Sir Hugh Rose's Division, will receive about £40 each from the Dhar Prize Money, this booty having been granted exclusively to the actual captors; and whether it has also been proposed to allot to these Troops a share of the Banda and Kirwee Prize Money on the principle of constructive capture; and, if so, whether the Law Officers of the Crown have concurred in that suggestion?
§ SIR CHARLES WOODsaid, he believed that the private soldiers would, as 1179 stated by the noble Lord, receive about £40 each from the Dhar Prize Money. In reply to the second Question asked by the noble Lord, he would only state that the decision of the Question rested with the Treasury; but what that decision would be he could not say.