§ Select Committee appointed, "to inquire into and report upon the existing principles and practice which in the several Public Departments and Bodies regulate; the Purchase and Sale of Materials and Stores:"—Committee to consist of Nineteen Members:—Committee, nominated:—Colonel BARTTELOT, Sir GEORGE BALFOUR, Mr. BAXTER, Mr. ALEXANDER BROWN, Mr. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN, Mr. BATES, Mr. CROSSLEY, Mr. WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT, Mr. GOLDNEY, Sir JOHN HAY, Mr. MITCHELL HENRY, Mr. HICK, Mr. JOHN HOLMS, Mr. LAIRD, Mr. MELLOR, Mr. SALT, Mr. TORR, Mr. ROWLAND WINN, and Mr. WHITWELL, with power to send for persons, papers, and records:—Minutes of the Evidence taken before the Select Committee on Public Departments (Purchases, & c.) in Session 1873, referred to the Committee:—Five to be the quorum.
§ House adjourned at One o'clock.