HC Deb 27 August 1895 vol 36 c1000
* MR. HANBURY

asked for leave to bring in a Bill to grant money for the purpose of certain local loans.

MR. T. M. HEALY

asked what was the object of the Bill.

* MR. HANBURY

said, one of the principal objects of the Bill was to appoint Public Works Loans Commissioners, who had to be re-appointed every five years, and whose term of office would expire on the 31st of March of next year.

MR. T. M. HEALY

Are they three Tories?

* MR. HANBURY

One of the colleagues of the hon. Gentleman is appointed a Commissioner. The sum proposed in the Bill was exactly the same as that proposed in the Bill of last year.

Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Hanbury and Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer; presented accordingly, and read the first time; to be read a second time upon Friday, and to be printed. [Bill 2.]

Whereupon, Mr. Speaker, in pursuance of the Order of the House of the 19th August, adjourned the House without Question put.

House adjourned at Twenty minutes after One o'clock.