§ LORD ROBERT MONTAGUsaid, he wished to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, in reference to the answer which he gave on Friday, Whether (in accordance with the provisions of the Act 9 & 10 Vict. c. 92) the accounts of the Receipt and Expenditure of the Navy, together with the Reports of the Commissioners of Audit, were laid before the House of Commons within one week after the assembling of Parliament; whether (in accordance with the Act 24 & 25 Vict. c. 93) the Accounts of the Customs, of the Inland Revenue, and of the Post Office, were laid before the House of Commons within one week after the assembling of Parliament; and whether (in accordance with the Act 14 & 15 Vict. c. 42) the Commissioners of Works and Public Buildings, and the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Landed Revenue transmitted their Accounts to the Audit Office on or before the 30th day November last past; and whether those Accounts, together with the Auditors' Reports thereon, were transmitted to the 502 Treasury on or before the 31st of January last, to be laid before Parliament?
MR. PEELsaid, in reply, that the directions of all the Acts of Parliament had been properly complied with. The Navy Accounts had been presented on the first day of the Session, the Revenue Accounts had been laid upon the table within one week after the meeting of Parliament, and the Works and Buildings and Woods and Forests Accounts had been sent to the Audit Board before the end of October, and had been duly returned to the Treasury before the close of last month.