§ Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed "to inquire how far the several hereditary pensions, allowances, and payments ought to be continued, having due regard to any just claims of the respective recipients, and to economy in the public expenditure; and, further, to inquire into the circumstances of the commutation of hereditary pensions, allowances, and payments which have been commuted since the 1st day of January 1881. That the 244 Committee have power to send for persons, papers, and records."
§ Ordered, That Five be the quorum.—(Mr. Bradlaugh.)