§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLTo ask the First Lord of the Treasury who is now Governor-General of India, having regard to the statutory provisions by which it is enacted that a Governor-General of India vacates that office by absence from India.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Brodrick.) Under Section 50 of the Indian Councils Acts, 1861, Lord Ampthill, being the senior of the two Governors of Madras and Bombay, has become acting Governor-General, and will hold the office of Governor-General, with the emoluments, until some other person shall be appointed to it, and shall have arrived in India.