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Resolution reported,
That it is expedient to authorise the payment, out of moneys provided by Parliament, and; if those moneys are insufficient, out of the Consolidated Fund, of such sums as may be required for giving effect to obligations incurred for the purpose of the present War or in connection therewith, by or on behalf of His Majesty's Government, and for other purposes in relation thereto.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House doth agree with the Committee in the said Resolution.
§ Colonel GRETTONThis Motion has come on somewhat suddenly. I would like to inquire from the Minister in charge whether it enables the Government to expend an unlimited sum of money without any further enactment, or is this merely the ordinary Money Motion to enable the Bill to proceed upstairs? The proceedings are not quite obvious, to myself at any rate, or perhaps to other Members of the House.
§ Lord E. TALBOT (Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury)My hon. Friend who was in charge of this Resolution is not able to be here to-night, and the Motion, therefore, cannot proceed.
§ Motion made, and Question, "That the Debate be now adjourned," put, and agreed to.
§ Debate to be resumed to-morrow.
1692§ The remaining Orders were read, and postponed.
§ Sitting suspended till a Quarter after Eight of the Clock.