§ COLONEL DENNYI beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether the question of sufficiency of accommodation for lascars was fully considered by the Indian Government lately; whether a clause to assimilate the Indian to the British law in this particular was abandoned after careful consideration of a petition by the lascars themselves, who declared themselves to be fully satisfied with the existing arrangements; and whether it was shown on that occasion that the present allowance of space was ample for the health and comfort of the lascars?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Lord GEORGE HAMILTON,) Middlesex, EalingThe answers to all three clauses of my honourable Friend's Question are in the affirmative; but I should add that the Select Committee, on whose recommendation the proposal to increase the space for native crews was aban- 337 doned, based to some extent their recommendation on the fact that they thought such an alteration of the law would be out of place in a Consolidation Bill.