§ SIR W. WEDDERBURNI beg to ask the Secretary of State for India will he state what is the amount of the expenses incurred on account of the maintenance of the brothers Natu since their arrest; whether any portion of these expenses are charged to the Natu state; and, if so, under what provision of law such a charge is made?
§ THE SECRETARY of STATE FOR INDIAAccording to the accounts as yet received, the payments made up to the 31st of July 1898 out of their estate for the maintenance of the two brothers amounted to Rs. 1,912 0 anna 4 pies. I have not received accounts of the total cost of their maintenance up to that date, nor of the expenditure from their estates after that date. The charge made against their estates under management was incurred under Section 2 Regulation XXV. of 1827, and in accordance with the advice of the legal officers of Bombay.