§ "1. That 110,640 men and boys be employed for the Sea and Coast Guard Services for the year ending on the 31st day of March 1900, including 18,505 Royal Marines."
§ "2. That a sum not exceeding £5,242,700 be granted to Her Majesty to defray the Expenses of Wages, etc to Officers, Seamen, and Boys, Coast Guard, and Royal Marines, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March 1900."
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Ordered, That the Resolution which, upon the 16th instant, was adopted from the Committee of Supply, and which was then agreed to by the House, be now read;
That a number of Land Forces not exceeding 184,853 all ranks be maintained for the Service of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland at Home and Abroad, excluding Her Majesty's Indian Possessions, during the year ending on the 31st day of March 1900.