§ Mr. LEAasked the President of the Board of Trade, When the Railway Returns for the year 1872 are received at the Board of Trade; and when those Returns will be laid upon the Table of the House?
§ MR. CHICHESTER FORTESCUE,in reply, said, Railway Companies were bound, under the Act of 1871, to send in their Returns within a fortnight of their half-yearly meetings. There had been delay in several instances, and the companies had been warned by the Board of Trade that if continued the penalties would be enforced.