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• Ayes—ls. Noes—ll. Messrs. Ludlam Messrs. Mackay Macandrew J. W akefield Hart Crompton Kins Greenwood Kelham Bacot Featherston Lee W eld O'Neill Picar( i Brown Sewell Tie vans Monro Gledhill Travers (teller). Moorhouse Fitzgerald Cutten Wortley (teller). No. 7.—Motion made and question put—That a sum of £1,300 be appropriated as grants in aid of Schools, viz.: Schools under the management of the Church of Rome £600; under the management of the Wesleyan Body £700. Committee divided. Ayes—ll. Noes—6. Messrs. Brown Messrs. Ludlam E. J. Wakefield Macandrew Hart Kelham Carleton Revans Weld Gledhill L ee Cutten (teller). Mackay Sewell Travers Clifford O'Neill (teller).

Tuesday, September 12th, 1854. No. B—Expenses of Members. Question proposed— That the expenses of Members of the House of Representatives should be paid at the followiug rate :— The actual and necessary travelling expenses incurred in coming from and returning to their homes, calculated and audited in the usual manner in which such expenses are calculated in respect to persons in the Government service, that no person shall be paid travelling expenses to his House, who shall have left before the end of the Session, without obtaining leave from the House. That twenty shillings a day, calculated from the day of the opening of the Session of the General Assembly to the day of the closing of the same, be allowed to every Member, towards defraying such expenses.—(Mr. Wakejleld.) Amendment proposed —Leave out all the words of Mr. Wakefield's motion, with a view to insert the following : That ten shillings per diem be allowed to each member, from the opening of the first to the closing of the present Session. —(Mr. Sewell.) Question put —That the words proposed to be omitted stand part of the question. Committee divided. Ayes—lB. Noes —6. Messrs. Lee Messrs. Sewell Porter Kelham Gledhill Rhodes W akefield Featherston E. J. Wakefield Revans Fitzgerald O'Neill (teller).