§ MR. SCHWANN (Manchester, N. E.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for India if he is now in a position to lay upon the Table of the House the Correspondence which passed betwixt the India Office and the Government of India on the subject of coolie labour in the Assam Tea Gardens; and if he has any further information to give the House, which may not be contained in that Correspondence, as to any recent steps which may have been taken by the Government of India to abolish contract labour under Act I. of 1882 and Act XIII. of 1859, as announced by him?
MR. GEORGE RUSSELLIf my hon. Friend will move for the Papers, the Secretary of State will be glad to lay on the Table Act VII. of 1893, with the correspondence on the subject. These 266 Papers will show what has been done to modify the position of contract labourers under Acts 1 of 1882, and XIII. of 1859.