§
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 farm in which the Estimates shah be presented for examination, and to report what, if any, economies consistent with the policy implied in those Estimates, may he effected therein.
§
Ordered,
That the Committee do consist of Twenty-eight Members.
§ Sir Charles Barrie, Mr. Brocklebank, Earl Castle Stewart, Commander Cochrane, Mr. Cocks, Mr. Daggar, Mr. James Duncan, Mr. Richard Evans, Sir George Gillett, Mr. Hannon, Sir Vivian Henderson, Lieut.-Colonel Heneage, Mr. Campbell Ker, Mr. Law, Captain Loder, Captain Macdonald, Mr. McEntee, Mr. Maclay, Major McLean, Mr. Nunn, Sir Assheton Pownall, Mr. Ross Taylor, Major Salmon, Lieut.-Colonel Spender-Clay, Mr. Strauss, Sir Kenyon Vaughan-Morgan, Sir John Wardlaw-Milne, and Mr. Edward Williams nominated Members of the Committee.
§
Ordered,
That Seven be the quorum.
§
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 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."—[Sir F. Thomson.]
§ The remaining Orders were read, and postponed.