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Ayes—23. Noes—3. Messrs. Greenwood Messrs. Lee Bacot Cuttten Taylor O'Neill (teller.) Fitzgerald Porter Mackay Featherston Kelham Ludlam Picard Gledhill Brown Monro King Weld Sewell Moorhouse Hart Macandrew Clifford O'Brien Travers Wortley (teller.) Original question put and carried. No. 3—Question proposed—That the Salary of the Native Secretary, attached to the Land Purchase Department, he £250. —{Mr. Cutten.) Amendment proposed —That the question be amended by the omission of the figures 250 with a view to insert 300 in their place. —{Dr. Monro.) Question put—That the figures proposed to be omitted stand part of the question. Committee divided. Ayes—7. Noes—2l. Messrs. O'Brien Messrs. E. J. Wakefield Greenwood Hart Lee Kelham O'Neill Clifford Gray W eld Picard Gledhill Cutten Brown Ludlam Monro King Rhodes Sewell Bacot Mackay Macandrcw Cutten Fitzgerald Moorhouse Cromptou Featherston Wortley (teller.) Whereupon amendment put and carried. No. 4.—Question proposed—That this Committee recommend /the House to present an address to His Excellency praying him to remove the Salaries of the Resident Magistrates from the Civil List.—(Mr. Fitzgerald.) Amendment proposed—-That in the opinion of this Committee it is desirable that the following charges be withdrawn from the Civil List, and provisions made for those objects from the General Revenue, viz.:—