§ Sir W. BULLasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury why No. XLVII, Index of Chancery Proceedings (Series I), preserved in the Public Record Office, James I, Vol. I, A-K, London, published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1922, containing 490 pages, costs £5 net, and why No. XLVIII, List of Early Chancery Proceedings, preserved in the 56W Public Record Office, Vol. VI, London, published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1922, containing 364 pages, costs 10s, net, seeing that Vols. I, II, III, IV, and V of the Early Chancery Proceedings, containing, respectively, 392, 566, 519, 459, and 612 pages (total 2,548 pages) were published in 1901, 1903, 1906, 1908, and 1912 at 12s., 17s., 15s., 15s., and 20s., respectively (total 2,548 pages for 79s.); whether the authorities at the Record Office were consulted before these increased charges were fixed; whether a number of public libraries in America and elsewhere were given sets of lists and indices in exchange for their undertaking to subscribe for future volumes in the series; and, if so, what steps are being taken so that they may not give notice to discontinue this arrangement on account of this increase in price without notice?
§ Sir J. BAIRDI am sending a full explanation to my right hon. Friend in regard to these two publications