HC Deb 06 August 1879 vol 249 cc364-6

Considered in Committee.

(In the Committee.)

(1.) Resolved, That it appears by the Navy Appropriation Account, for the year ended 31st March 1878, that the balances unexpended in respect of certain Votes for Navy Services for the said year amounted to the sum of £114,783 4s. 11d., viz.:—

£ s. d.
Vote 1. Wages to Seamen and Marines 1,672 17 1
Vote 3. Admiralty Office 152 9 8
Vote 4. Coast Guard Service (Royal Naval Reserve) 14,671 17 4
Vote 5. Scientific Branch 8,794 10 7
Vote 7. Victualling Yards at Home and Abroad 1,449 17 6
Vote 8. Medical Establishments at Home and Abroad 627 19 3
Vote 9. Marine Divisions 829 6 7
Vote 10. Naval Stores, &c.:—
Section 1. Naval Stores 34,677 4 9
Vote 11. New Works, Buildings, Machinery, &c. 38,622 16 6
Vote 12. Medicines and Medical Stores 1,945 6 2
Vote 13. Martial Law and Law Charges 22 14 2
Vote 15. Half Pay, Retired Pay, &c. 10,146 9 5
Vote 16. Military and Civil Pensions, &c.:—
Section 2. Civil Pensions and Allowances 1,269 16 0
£114,783 4 11

(2.) Resolved, That the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have temporarily authorised the application of the said sum of £114,783 4s. 11d., to provide in part for the following amounts of expenditure incurred in excess of certain other Vote3 for Navy Services for the said year, viz.:—

£ s. d.
Vote 2. Victuals and Clothing for Seamen and Marines 27,169 10 2
Vote 6. Dockyards and Naval Yards at Home and Abroad 44,751 4 11
Vote 10. Naval Stores, & c.:—
Section 2. Steam Machinery and Ships built by Contract 1,522,537 6 2
Vote 14. Miscellaneous Services 57,887 11 2
Vote 16. Military and Civil Pensions, &c.:—
Section I. Military Pensions and Allowances 1,606 6 11
Vote 17. Army Department (Conveyance of Troops) 249,615 10 10
Amount written off as irrecoverable 3,630 18 1
£1,907,198 8 3

(3.) Resolved, sanctioned.

(4.) Resolved, That it appears by the Army Appropriation Account, for the year ended the 31st March 1878, that the balances unexpended in respect of certain Votes for Army Services for the said year, were as follows, amounting to the sum of £184,943 1s. 0d., viz.:—

£ s. d.
Vote 5. Militia Pay and Allowances 50,975 10 4
Vote 6. Yeomanry Cavalry 4,435 9 1
Vote 8. Army Reserve (in eluding Enrolled Pensioners) 23,192 10 5

£ s. d.
Vote 9. Commissariat, &c. Establishments 822 6 9
Vote 14. Establishments for Military Education 3,894 18 5
Vote 15. Miscellaneous Services 2,794 15 7
Vote 16. Administration of the Army 2,749 13 5
Vote 18. Pay of General Officers 16,708 18 8
Vote 19. Full Pay of Retired, &c. Officers, and Half Pay. 50,935 15 2
Vote 20. Widows' Pensions, &c. 5,227 6 11
Vote 21. Pensions for Wounds 192 13 2
Vote 22. Chelsea and Kilmainham Hospitals 841 3 2
Vote 24. Superannuation Allowances 14,962 12 11
Vote 25. Militia, Yeomanry Cavalry, and Volunteer Corps 7,209 7 0
£184,943 1 0

(5.) Resolved, That it further appears from the said Account that the sum of £73,831 7s. 4d. was realised in the said year in excess of the estimated Appropriations in Aid.

(6.) Resolved, That the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have temporarily authorised the application of the said sums, amounting together to the total sum of £258,774 8s. 4d., to provide in part for the following amounts of expenditure incurred in excess of certain other Votes for Army Services for the said year, viz.:—

£ s. d.
Vote 1. General Staff and Regimental Pay, &c. 1,532 3 11
Vote 2. Divine Service 751 18 9
Vote 3. Martial Law 937 9 4
Vote 4. Medical Establishments and Supplies 76,248 14 2
Vote 7. Volunteer Corps 2,651 15 4
Vote 10. Provisions, Forage, Fuel, &c. 282,508 5 1
Vote 11. Clothing Establishment, &c. 460,699 9 3
Vote 12. Supply, &c. of Warlike and other Stores 612,691 10 8
Vote 13. Works, Buildings, and Repairs at Home or Abroad 100,137 9 4
Vote 17. Rewards for distinguished Services 5,140 7 8
Vote 23. Out Pensions 120,129 18 6
Amount written off as irrecoverable 399 8 7
£1,663,828 10 7

(7.) Resolved, That the said application be sanctioned.

Resolutions to be reported To-morrow.