§ SUPPLY—considered in Committee.
§ (In the Committee.)
§ (1.) £100,000, Expedition into Ashantee.
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERexplained that the Vote was additional to the £800,000 already voted, but he did not think the whole £100,000 would be required to meet the undefrayed expenditure.
§ Vote agreed to.
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(2.) Motion made, and Question proposed,
That a sum, not exceeding £175,600, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense for the Freight of Ships, for the Victualling and for the Conveyance of Troops, on account of the Army Department, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March 1875.
§ GENERAL SIR GEORGE BALFOURexpressed an opinion that the Vote would be more economically administered by the Army than by the Navy.
§ MR. HUNTsaid, that if the hon. and gallant Member's financial views were adopted it would be necessary for the Navy and Army respectively to manufacture their own ordnance.
§ Question put, and agreed to.
§ Resolutions to be reported.
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Motion made, and Question proposed,
That a sum, not exceeding £1,235,326, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Expense of the Dockyards and Naval Yards at Home and Abroad, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March 1875.
§ MR. GOURLEY moved to report Progress.
§ Motion agreed to.
§ Resolutions to be reported To-morrow;
§ Committee also report Progress; to sit again To-morrow.