§
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
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Estimates shall he 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-eight Members.
Mr. Albery, Mr. Oliver Baldwin, Mr. Bird, Mr. Charleton, Mr. Cocks, Mr. Ede.
§
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Frederick Hall, Mr. Hannon, Mr. Hoffman, Mr. Llewellyn-Jones, Mr. Mansfield, Mr. Matters, Mr. William Morrison, Mr. Palmer, Captain Peake, Mr. Potts, Mr. Romeril, Mr. Russell, Major Salmon, Mr. Scott, Mr. Sitch, Mr. Rennie Smith, Lieutenant-Colonel Spender-Clay, Mr. Townend, Sir Kenyon Vaughan-Morgan, Mr. Wardlaw-Milne, Captain Waterhouse, and Mr. Womersley nominated Members of the Committee.
§
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 be-
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tween the Sub-Committees, any of which shall have the full powers of the undivided Committee; and that Four shall 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.
§
Ordered,
That the Committee have power to report from time to time."—[Mr. T. Kennedy.]
§ The remaining Orders were read, and postponed.