§ Considered, in Committee.
§ [Sir DONALD MACLEAN in the Chair.]
§ Resolved,
§ That towards making good the Supply granted to His Majesty for the service of the year ended on the 31st day of March, 1917, the sum of £10 to be granted out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom.—[Mr. Baldwin.]
§ Resolved,
§ That, towards making good the supply granted to His Majesty for the service of the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1919, the sum of £702,656,000 be granted out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom.—[Mr. Baldwin.]
§ Resolutions to be reported To-morrow.
2642§ And whereas by a Vote of Parliament during the present Session (House of Commons Paper, No. 112, of 1918), a further sum of £10 has been granted for the expenditure of the year 1916–17, and the appropriation of additional receipts in aid of such expenditure has been sanctioned to the amount of £2,065,381 6s. 8d.
§ And whereas, as shown in the Schedule hereunto appended, the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury have temporarily authorised the application so far as necessary of the excesses of the sums realised on account of Appropriations-in-Aid of Army Votes 2 and 4 to 14 over the sums which may be applied under the Appropriation Acts, 1916 and 1917, as Appropriations-in-Aid of those Votes, towards making good the deficiency of £17,570,420 10s. 2d. in the sums realised on account of Appropriations-in-Aid of Votes 1, 3, and 15.
§ Motion made, and Question, "That the application of such sums be sanctioned," put, and agreed to.