§ Standing Order 15 (Business of Supply):
§ (2) Not more than twenty days, being days before the 5th of August, shall be allotted for the consideration of the annual Estimates for the Army, Navy, and Civil Services, including Votes on Account. The days allotted shall not include any day on which the Question has to be put that Mr. Speaker do leave the Chair, or any day on which the business of Supply does not stand as first order.
- (7) At Ten of the clock, on the last day but one of the days so allotted, the Chairman shall forthwith put every Question
234 necessary to dispose of the Vote then under consideration, and shall then forthwith put the Question with respect to each class of the Civil Service Estimates that the total amount of the Votes outstanding in that class be granted for the services defined in the class, and shall in like manner put severally the Questions that the total amounts of the Votes outstanding in the Estimates for the Navy, the Army, and the Revenue Departments be granted for the services defined in those Estimates. - (8) At Ten of the clock on the last, not being earlier than the twentieth, of the allotted days, Mr. Speaker shall forthwith put every Question necessary to dispose of the Report of the Resolution then under consideration, and shall then forthwith put, with respect to each class of the Civil Service Estimates, the Question, that the House doth agree with the Committee in all the outstanding Resolutions reported in respect of that class, and shall then put a like Question with respect to all the Resolutions outstanding in the Estimates for
235 the Navy, the Army, the Revenue Departments, and other outstanding Resolutions severally.
§ Amendments made: In paragraph (2), after the word "Navy" ["Annual Estimates for the Army, Navy, and Civil Service"], insert the words "Air Force."
§ In paragraph (7), after the word "Army" ["Estimates for the Navy, the Army, and the Revenue"], insert the words "the Air Force."
§ In paragraph (8), after the word "Army" ["Estimates for the Navy, the Army, the Revenue Departments "], insert the words "the Air Force."—[Mr. Bonar Law.]
§ Standing Order 17 (When Chair to be left without Question put.)
§ Whenever the Committee of Supply stands as an Order of the day, Mr. Speaker shall leave the Chair without putting any Question, unless on first going into Supply on the Army, Navy, or Civil Service Estimates respectively, or on any Vote of Credit, an Amendment be moved, or question raised, relating to the Estimates proposed to be taken in Supply.
§ Amendment made: After the word "Navy" ["Army, Navy, or Civil Service Estimates"], insert the words "Air Force."—[Mr. Bonar Law:.]