§ MR. WHALLEYsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in reference to his Statement that the accounts of the Income and Expenditure of Turnpike Trusts for 1866 had not reached the Home Office, If he will explain the reason why the Department of the Home Office, which attends to those matters, has omitted to act upon the power given by the Act of Parliament for enforcing the delivery of such accounts, so that they may be laid before this House; and also, if the omission referred to is not the reason why no accounts have been rendered up to a more recent period than the 31st day of December, 1864?
§ SIR JAMES FERGUSSON, in reply, said, the delay had not arisen so much from the non-delivery of the accounts as the necessity of afterwards revising them.