§ MR. PINKERTONI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury if he is aware that the sum of £45,000, borrowed by the Galway Harbour Commissioners from the Board of Works, for the pur- 1609 pose of improving their harbour, was advanced by that Board after careful examination and full approval of the plans and specifications submitted by Mr. Price, C.E., and the resolution passed by the Harbour Board in favour of carrying out these new works was only carried by a majority of one; if, after an expenditure of £45,000, a deep dock was constructed without an entrance channel, the water in the dock being 10 feet deeper than in the channel outside; and if, seeing that the port has derived no benefit from this expenditure, and as the Board of Works approved of and are responsible for everything that was done in the harbour, the Government will consider the advisability of either expending a further sum to deepen the entrance channel, so as to complete the works as at first designed, or relieve the port from the burthen of this debt?
§ *THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. JACKSON,) Leeds, N.I must ask the hon. Member to put the question to-morrow. I have not yet been able to obtain the information.