§ MR. PATRICK O'BRIEN (Kilkenny)I beg to ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the annual salaries of the officials were fixed before all night sittings were known in the proceedings of the House, and before the passing of the Fair Wages Resolution; and, if so, whether he will reconsider the question with the view of arranging a scale of extra payment for all officials required to do extra duties in connection with long sittings of the House, not taken into account when their salaries were fixed?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (Sir MICHAEL HICKS BEACH,) Bristol, W.It is highly improbable that any of the salaries of the officials of the House were "fixed before all-night sittings were known in the proceedings of the House," as the House sat on the 13th of February, 1764, from 9 a.m. to 7.30 a.m. on the following day, and there are many instances of all-night sittings from that date onwards. Many of the salaries were probably fixed before the Fair Wages Resolution, which 715 (as before explained in answer to a previous Question) has no bearing upon the case. I see no reason to alter present arrangements.