§ SIR GEORGE CAMPBELL (Kirkcaldy, &c.)asked the Under Secretary 1236 of State for India, Whether the cost of the railways to and beyond Quettah are charged to loans and excluded from the Revenue Account; if so, whether the amount is included among ordinary loans or classed with productive Railway Loans?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Sir JOHN GORST) (Chatham)The cost of the Quettah Railways is charged to loans and excluded from Revenue Account. It is classed as "capital outlay on railways and irrigation works." The technical term "productive" was abandoned in 1884, on the recommendation of a Committee of the House of Commons.
§ SIR GEORGE CAMPBELLgave Notice that he would take the earliest opportunity of calling attention to the utterly misleading character of the Indian Accounts.