*THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (The Earl of ONSLOW)moved the Second Reading of the East India Company's Officers' Superannuation Bill, the object of which is to set at rest certain doubts which have arisen as to the powers of the Secretary of State with regard to officers who were originally upon the establishment of the East India Company, and have now, under the Act of Parliament, been transferred to the control of the Secretary of State for India, in Council. There were, he said, only 12 of them in still in the service.
§ Read 2a (according to Order); and committed to a Committee of the Whole House To-morrow.