§ Considered in Committee.
§ (In the Committee.)
§ (1.) Resolved, That it is expedient to authorise the imposition of a Stamp Duty on any grants or contract for payment of a Superannuation Annuity of the following amount:—
| For every full sum of £5, and also for every fraction less than £5, or over and above £5, or a multiple of £5 of the annuity | 6d. |
§ (2.) Resolved, That it is expedient to authorise the payment, out of moneys to be provided by Parliament, of compensation to certain officers for loss of fees, and the payment, by the creation of Terminable Annuities charged on the Consolidated Fund, of any deficiency in the sums due from the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt to Friendly Societies.
§ (3.) Resolved, That it is expedient to authorise the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt to advance, out of moneys in their hands on account of Savings Banks, any capital sum to be paid to the Treasury in pursuance of "The Prison (Officers Superannuation) Act, 1878," and to authorise the repayment to the National Debt Commissioners of such advances, either by Terminable Annuities to be paid out of moneys to be provided by Parliament, or immediately out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom.
§ (4.) Resolved, That it is expedient to authorise the National Debt Commissioners to lend, out 891 of moneys in their hands on account of Trustee and Post Office Savings Banks, sums payable by the Treasury to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, and the repayment of such loans by the creation of Terminable Annuities charged upon the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom.
§ (5.) Resolved, That it is expedient to authorise the payment, out of the Consolidated Fund to the Duchy of Lancaster, of a sum of £15,000, in respect of escheats, fines, and recognisances within certain liberties of the Duchy of Lancaster, which sum may become payable under the provisions of any Act of the present Session for amending the Laws relating to Revenue, Friendly Societies, and National Debt.
§ Resolutions to be reported To-morrow.