§ Ordered, "That a Select Committee be appointed to examine such of the Estimates presented to this House as may seem fit to the Committee, and to suggest the form in which the Estimates shall be presented for examination, and to report what, if any, economies, consistent with the policy implied in those Estimates, may be effected therein."
§ Ordered, "That the Committee do consist of twenty-four Members."
§ Committee accordingly nominated of Sir Frederick Banbury, Major Barnes, Lieut.-Colonel Spender Clay, Captain Craig, Captain Viscount Curzon, Mr. Charles Edwards, Major Entwistle, Sir Edgar Jones, Mr. Morgan Jones, Major Christopher Lowther, Mr. Lyle-Samuel, Mr. Marriott, Captain Martin, Mr. Mills, Captain Moreing, Major William Murray, Sir Philip Pilditch, Lieut.-Colonel Assheton Pownall, Mr. Rose, Mr. Arthur Michael Samuel, Lieut.-Colonel Stephenson, Colonel Sir Robert Williams, Mr. Wise, and Mr. Hilton Young.
§ Ordered, "That Seven be the quorum of the Committee."
§ Ordered, "That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers, and records, and to sit notwithstanding any Adjournment of the House."
§ Ordered, "That the Committee have power, if they so determine, to appoint one or more Sub-committees, and in that event to apportion the subjects referred to the Committee between the Sub-committees, any of which shall have the full powers of the undivided Committee; and 2239 that Four be the quorum of any of the Sub-committees."
§ Ordered, "That the Committee do report any evidence taken by the Committee, or by any of the Sub-committees, to the House."—[Colonel Gibbs.]