§ Resolution reported;
§ "That it is expedient to make provision for the redemption of the Dividend on the Capital Stock of the East India Company, on or after the 30th day of April 1874, as authorised by the Act of the 3rd and 4th William the Fourth, chapter eighty-five."
§ Resolution agreed to.
§ Ordered, That Mr. Speaker do give notice in writing, pursuant to the Act of the 3rd and 4th William the Fourth, chapter 85, section 12, to the East India Company, that it is the intention of Parliament to redeem the Dividend upon their Capital Stock, in the manner prescribed by the said Act, upon the 30th day of April 1874.
§ Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. GRANT DUFF and Mr. AYRTON.
§ Bill presented, and read the first time. [Bill 102.]