§ 4. "That a sum, not exceeding £281,400, 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 1897, for the Customs, Inland Revenue, Post Office, and Post Office Telegraph Buildings in Great Britain, including Furniture, Fuel, and sundry Miscellaneous Services."
§ 5. "That a sum, not exceeding £132,000, 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 1897, in respect of sundry Public Buildings in Great Britain, not provided for on other Votes."
§ 6. "That a sum not exceeding £26,000, be granted to Her Majesty, to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come 1145 in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March 1897, for Expenditure in respect of Royal Palaces and Marlborough House."
§ 7. "That a sum not exceeding.£74,000. he 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 1897, for the Royal Parks and Pleasure Gardens."
§ Resolutions agreed to.
§ 8. "That a sum not exceeding £23,900 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 1897, for the Houses of Parliament Buildings,"—
§ *MR. HERBERT LEWISasked whether the right hon. Gentleman, the First Commissioner of Works, would consider the advisability of extending the telegraph system to the smoking and dining rooms and the library. He also wished to know what was going to be done with regard to the statue of the late Mr. John Bright.
§ *THE FIRST COMMISSIONER OF WORKS (Mr. AKERS-DOUGLAS,) Kent, St. Augustine'ssaid, that the subject of the extension of the telegraph was under consideration. With regard to the statue of the late Mr. John Bright, the matter was not entirely within his jurisdiction. There seemed to be a difference of opinion with regard to the merits of the statue, which some thought was hardly worthy of the gentleman it was supposed to represent. The statue had not yet been taken over by the Government.
§ DR. TANNERsaid that he desired to call attention to the defective ventilation of the House. None of the systems of ventilation had been carried out in their entirety. Some attempt at properly ventilating the House had been made in consequence of a speech that he had made in 1885. It was then thought that the system in force in the Hôtel Dieu in Paris should be adopted. If that were done it would be possible to pump the air through cotton wool, by which it would be deprived of all extraneous matter. What he asked of the right hon. Gentleman was that the system that had been partly carried out in 1885, and that had been endorsed in 1887, should be carried out in its entirety, or at all events something should be done to mitigate the evil of which he complained. The House was entitled to some definite expression of 1146 opinion from the right hon. Gentleman on the subject.
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Resolution agreed to.
9. "That a sum, not exceeding £13,000, 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 1897, for the Extension of the Admiralty Buildings.
10. "That a sum, not exceeding £36,500, 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 1897, for Expenditure in respect of Miscellaneous Legal Buildings, viz., County Courts, Metropolitan Police Courts, and Sheriff Court Houses, Scotland.
11. "That a sum, not exceeding £20,400, 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 1897, for Expenditure in respect of Art and Science Buildings, Great Britain.
12. "That a sum, not exceeding, £19,800, 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 1897, for Expenditure in respect of Diplomatic and Consular Buildings, and for the maintenance of certain Cemeteries Abroad.
13. "That a sum, not exceeding £140,210, 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 1897, for the Survey of the United Kingdom, and for minor services connected therewith.
14. "That a sum, not exceeding £17,570, 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 1897, for constructing a new Harbour of Refuge at Peterhead.
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Resolution agreed to.
15. "That a sum, not exceeding £174,853, 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 1897, for Rates and Contributions in lieu of Rates, etc., in respect of Government Property, and for Rates on Houses occupied by Representatives of Foreign Powers, and for the Salaries and Expenses of the Rating of Government Property Department,"—
§ *LORD HUGH CECIL (Greenwich)asked what was going to be done in the case of the borough of Greenwich?
§ MR. HANBURYsaid that the noble Lord need not be afraid that the borough he represented would suffer in any way when the re-valuation took place.
§ Resolution agreed to.