§ Mr. ADAMSONasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether the British South Africa Company has in- 648W cluded in its provisional claim any sum for public works; whether in the statement of policy issued by the company in 1913 the directors stated that public works would have to be taken over at fair valuation, whereas the royal charter provides that those works shall be taken over at a reasonable compensation; and whether he wil draw the attention of the company to this distinction?
§ Lieut.-Colonel AMERYThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. As regards the" second and third parts of the question, Mr. Maguire, in the statement, to which I understand my right hon. Friend refers, quoted the actual terms of Article 33 of the Charter which bears on this point, and may be presumed to have had them in mind in his subsequent references to the subject.