§ Read 3a (according to Order).
§ Clause 1:
§ Application of China indemnity.
§ (4) The said Secretary of State shall cause to be prepared, in such form as the Treasury may from time to time direct, in respect of each financial year an account showing the receipts and expenditure in that year in respect of the China Indemnity Fund, and the said account shall be examined by the Comptroller and Auditor-General, and shall, together with his report thereon, be laid before the House of Commons as soon as may be after the end of the year to which it relates.
528§ THE EARL OF CLARENDON moved, in subsection (4), to leave out "the House of Commons" and insert "each House of Parliament." The noble Lord said: My Lords, the Amendment which stands in my name upon the Paper has been placed there in deference to wishes expressed in your Lordships' House during the Committee stage of the Bill and in fulfilment of an undertaking given by my noble friend Lord Salisbury. It will meet, I think, the point raised by the most rev. Primate and my noble friend Lord Lamington, and it is hoped that the Amendment will be accepted in another place when the Bill is there considered. I beg to move.
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Amendment moved—
Clause 1, page 2, line 12, leave out from ("before") to ("as") and insert ("each House of Parliament").—(The Earl of Clarendon.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ Bill passed, and returned to the Commons.