§ 1. "That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding £20,000, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March 1893, for the Expenses of Inland Revenue Buildings and of Post Office and Post Office Telegraph Buildings in Great Britain."
§ 2. "That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding £12,000, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March 1893, for the National Portrait Gallery."
§ 3. "That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding £2,200, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March 1893, for the Expenses of Maintaining certain Harbours, Lighthouses, &c., under the Board of Trade."
§ Resolutions 1 to 3 agreed to.
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4. Motion made, and Question proposed,
That a Supplementary Sum, not exceeding £34,786, be granted to Her Majesty, to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March 1893, for payments under the Light Railways Act of 1889.
THE MARQUESS OF CARMARTHEN (Lambeth, Brixton)I wish to ask from the Secretary to the Treasury some assurance that as much labour as possible will be employed on these works at the present time, instead of putting them off till a season when the men might be more profitably engaged in agricultural pursuits. Will the Treasury exercise pressure with that object in view?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Sir J. T. HIBBERT,) OldhamI intended, and indeed thought I had already given, that assurance during the discussion on the Vote. The Treasury will use its influence with the Irish Board to get these railways finished as soon as possible.
THE MARQUESS OF CARMARTHENIt is not the completion of the railways I am asking about. I want to have an assurance that labour will be employed at the present time.
§ SIR J. T. HIBBERTThe railways cannot be finished unless labour is employed.
§ Resolution agreed to.