§ Considered in Committee.
§ (In the Committee.)
§ (1.) Resolved, That it is expedient to authorise advances, out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, or out of moneys in the hands of the National Debt Commissioners, held on account of Savings Banks, of any sum or sums of money not exceeding £3,000,000, in the whole, to enable the Public Works Loan Commissioners, and not exceeding £1,200,000, in the whole, to enable the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, to make advances in promotion of Public Works.
890§ (2.) Resolved, That it is expedient to authorise further advances, out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, of any sum or gums of money, not exceeding £4,000,000, in the whole, to enable the Land Commission in Ireland to make advances, or for the purchase of estates, in pursuance of "The Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881."
§ (3.) Resolved, That the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt be authorised to advance, with the consent of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, to the Irish Land Commissioners the sum of £2,600,000, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to make provision respecting certain arrears of rent in Ireland; and that it is expedient to authorise the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to guarantee the repayment to the said Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt of any moneys so advanced.
§ (4.) Resolved, That it is expedient to empower the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to postpone, on such conditions as may be agreed upon, the payment of Annuities due to the Public Works Loan Commissioners by the Pulteney Harbour Trustees in respect of a loan made by the said Commissioners for the Pulteney Town Harbour in Wick Bay.
§ (5.) Resolved, That it is expedient to amend "The Public Works Loans Act, 1875," "The Public Works Loans. (Ireland) Act, 1877," and "The General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861."
§ Resolutions to be reported To-morrow.