§ SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTEsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for India, Whether the booty taken at the Begum's Coote (Lucknow) in December, 1858, has been, or is to be, distributed among the troops by whom it was captured; and if the whole, or any portion of it, is to be so distributed, when the distribution is likely to take place?
§ SIR CHARLES WOODreplied that the operations of the prize agents having been brought to a close, this property was held to belong to the Crown; and a proposal made by the Chief Commissioner of Oude, that a certain portion should be granted to the finders, was considered and approved by the Government of India in December, 1859. The distribution of this sum was left to Major General Sir Hope Grant.