§ SIR WILLIAM CROSSMAN (Portsmouth)asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If he will state the actual amount that has up to this time been expended and the liabilities, if any, incurred in connection with the accommodation at Dover for the convicts intended to be employed on the construction of a harbour at that place?
THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. CHILDERS) (Edinburgh, S.)In reply to my hon. Friend I beg to say that the expenditure and liabilities in respect of buildings at Dover up to March 31, 1866, amount to £39,100; £13,175 has been expended on the purchase of land; but all of this will not be necessary for the buildings. A great portion will be required for the harbour works, or for any works of defence that may have to be erected.