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Resolution reported,
That it is expedient to authorise the payment out of the Consolidated Fund of the charges of Returning Officers at Parliamentary Elections.
§ Resolution agreed to.
§ Bill ordered to be brought in, upon the said Resolution, by Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Pratt.
905§ REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (RETURNING OFFICERS' EXPENSES) BILL,—"to amend the Representation of the People Act, 1918, with respect to the mode of payment of the charges of returning officers," I presented accordingly, and read the first time.
§ To be read a second time To-morrow, and to be printed. [Bill 8.]
906§ The remaining Orders were read, and postponed.
§ Whereupon Mr. Speaker, pursuant to the Order of the House of the 12th February, proposed the Question, "That this House do now adjourn."
§ Question put, and agreed to.
§ Adjourned accordingly at Sixteen minutes before Eleven o'clock.