§ Considered in Committee.
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Motion made, and Question proposed:—
That it is expedient to make provision for the construction of a Railway in Africa from Mombasa to the Victoria Nyanza, through the Protectorates of Zanzibar, British East Africa, and Uganda, and to authorise the issue out of the Consolidated Fund of any sums not exceeding in the whole £3,000,000 for that purpose; and to authorise the Treasury to borrow, for the
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purpose of providing money for sums to be issued out of the Consolidated Fund, or for the repayment of sums so, issued, by means of Terminable Annuities, such Annuities to be paid out of moneys to be provided by Parliament for Foreign and Colonial Services, and, if those moneys are insufficient, out of the Consolidated Fund."—(Mr. Hanbury.)
§ Whereupon Motion made, and Question, "That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again,"—(Dr. Tanner)—put, and agreed to.
§ Committee report Progress; to sit again upon Thursday.