§ SIR R. ASSHETON CROSSasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Why no Report has this year been issued by the Historical Manuscripts Commission, and how soon the Commission will have completed its labours; and, why no Report has this 108 year been made by the Deputy Keeper of Records, in accordance with the Act of Parliament in that behalf?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT, in reply, said, that the last Report of this Commission was issued in 1881; and a further voluminous Report of about 900 pages was, he believed, being prepared, and would before long be presented. It was impossible to state when the Commission would complete its labours. If the right hon. Gentleman would refer to last Friday's Votes, he would find that the Report of the Deputy Keeper of Records had been presented.