§ COLONEL BARTTELOTasked the Under Secretary of State for India, If he will state to the House upon what grounds the treasure taken at Kirwee in January 1859, shortly before the end of the insurrectionary war, in the house of Mukhoond Rao Jamdar, a rebel enemy, was held not to be legal booty?
MR. GRANT DUFFIn reply, Sir, to the hon. and gallant Gentleman, I have to say that the money having been found a considerable time after the capture of Kirwee was restored to its rightful owner by the civil authorities in the ordinary course of their duty.