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Resolutions 31 to 54 agreed to.
55. "That a sum, not exceeding £37,051, be granted to Her Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March 1893, for the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House doth agree with the Committee in the said Resolution."
§ MR. MORTONI do not see the First Commissioner of Works in his place, and he was absent, I think, when this Vote was taken in Committee. There are two matters I want to call attention to; but seeing that the head of the Department is not present, perhaps the First Lord will allow the Vote to be postponed, so that I may have answers to the questions I desire to ask.
§ (1.30.) MR. A. J. BALFOURIf the hon. Member will address his questions to the Secretary to the Treasury, perhaps my right hon. Friend can now give him the information he desires.
§ MR. MORTONI do not think it will be any use doing that; the Secretary to the Treasury can know nothing of the subjects. I will not go through the farce of asking questions to which I can get no answer, and I will not detain the House to-night, but will seek an opportunity upon the Appropriation Bill. Still, I think we have good reason to complain that the First Commissioner should be absent when this Vote is before the House.
§ Question put, and agreed to.
§ Resolution agreed to.
§ Resolutions 56 to 61 agreed to.