§ MR. WEIR (Ross and Cromarty)To ask the Secretary of State for India if he will state what was the total cost to the Government of India and the Panna Principality respectively of the inquiry that was made from June, 1901, to January, 1902, into the charges arising out of the death of the uncle of the Ruling Chief of Panna.
(Answered by Secretary Lord George Hamilton.) I have no information as to the cost of the inquiry into the charges 941 referred to, but I understand that the Government of India sanctioned, for the defence of the Maharaja, an expenditure up to a maximum of Rs.30,000, for which the revenues of the Panna State were to be liable.