§ SIR JOHN HAYasked the Under Secretary of State for India, Whether the sum of £276,000, and other sums, realised as proceeds of the moveable property of the Ex-Princes of Kirwee, and retained by the Indian Government, have been entered in the Returns presented to Parliament in 1876, in partial compliance with the Order of the House dated 23rd July 1874, which called for a Return of all the moveable property taken from those Chiefs; and, whether, 1300 and when, the Secretary of State proposes to complete the defective Return, so as to thoroughly fulfil the Order of Parliament?
§ MR. J. K. CROSSThe Papers presented to Parliament in 1876, in compliance with the Order of the House of July 23, 1874, gave a complete Return of the amount of all moveable property of enemies or insurgents in the territories of Oude or Kirwee, or of the proceeds thereof, which passed into the possession of the authorities in India since the outbreak of the War in 1857. The promissory notes representing the sum referred to by the right hon. and gallant Member never at any time passed into the possession of Government. They are, therefore, not included in the Return. Where any such notes were captured, as at Lucknow, they are shown in the Return. As, therefore, the Return was prepared in strict accordance with the Orders of the House, there is no ground for supplementing it. I may add that full information concerning these promissory notes was submitted to the House in an earlier Return, No. 298, dated July 5, 1869.