§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Committee of Public Accounts do consist of Fifteen Members."—(Sir Alexander Acland-Hood.)
§ *SIR CHARLES DLLKE appealed to the Government, if the appointment of the Committee were agreed to, not to press the nomination of its members that day. The Committee had lost the services of the hon. Member for King's Lynn, than whom no member of the Committee had done better public service. The Committee would regret losing him. Under these circumstances they ought to have time to consider the names proposed, especially as there were one or two Members, formerly active and useful members of the Committee, who had been 270 out of the House for some time, but had now returned and whose names ought to be considered along with those of younger members.
§ SIR ALEXANDER ACLAND-HOOD assented to the suggestion.
§ Question put, and agreed to.
§ Ordered, That the Committee of Public Accounts do consist of Fifteen Members.