§ MR. HANBURY (Preston)asked the Secretary of State for War, Whether an agreement has yet been arrived at between the War Office and the India Office as to the basis on which the Indian Government should pay for Home effective charges, or whether it is the fact that no definite arrangement on this point exists as to the future, and that even the accounts of the last six years remain open and without any 1217 decision having been come to on this subject?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. E. STANHOPE) (Lincolnshire, Horncastle), in reply, said, an agreement had not yet been arrived at on the extremely difficult subject of the payment of Home Charges by India; but an early settlement was anticipated by the Committee under the Presidency of the Earl of Northbrook. The main charge has been agreed upon up to the 31st of March, 1885; but the payment of deferred pay for the three years then ending had still to be adjusted. The special claims now under consideration were those for exceptional years during which large reinforcements were sent to India.
§ MR. HANBURYgave Notice that on the Motion to into Committee on the Indian Budget he would call attention to the extravagant nature of many of the Indian Home Charges.