§ Order read, for resuming Adjourned Debate on Question [13th December], "That the Contract, dated the 1st day of September, 1900, entered into with the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company for 870 the conveyance of the West India Mails for the period from the 1st day of July 1900, to the 30th day of June, 1905, be approved—(Mr. Austen Chamberlain.)
§ Question put, and agreed to.
§ Resolved, That the Contract, dated the 1st day of September, 1900, entered into with the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company for the conveyance of the West India Mails for the period from the 1st day of July, 1900, to the 30th day of June, 1905, be approved.
§ Whereupon, in pursuance of the Order of the House of the 7th day of this, instant December, Mr. Speaker adjourned the Mouse without Question put.
§ Adjourned accordingly at a quarter before Five of the clock.