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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE PENSIONED OFFICIALS.

EXTRACTS FROM THE VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Votes, No. 33, Fmday, June 6, 1856. 9, Pensioned Officials Committee :—Mr. Fox, pursuant to (amended) notice, moved, That the order referring to the Committee on Sir George Grey's Land Regulations, the correspondence on the Nelson defalcation be discharged; and that such correspondence, with the farther correspondence already laid on the table, be referred to a Committee consisting of the following members, Mr. Fitzherbert, Mr. Brown, Mr. Cuff, Mr. Stafford, aud the mover, and that it be an instruction to such Committee to consider any report which may be brought up by the Committee on Sir George Grey's Land Regulations; and also the report of the Committee on Lazarus Berlowitz case ; and also to receive and report on any other evidence tending to show official misconduct on the part of the pensioned officials, and to report on such misconduct, if established, to this House, with the object of forwarding such report to the Home Government with the Pension Act. Mr. "Williamson moved, as an amendment, that the members to serve on the Committee be •elected by ballot. The ballot having been taken, the following members were elected, viz., Mr. Stafford, Mr. Ludlam, Mr, Hall, and Mr. Fitzherbert. Whereupon question as amended put and passed. Votes, No. 38, Monday, June 16, 1856. 5. Pensioned Officials:—Mr. Fox, pursuant to notice, moved, That the papers now on the table of this House relative to a land claim of Captain Salmon's, be referred to the Committee on the pensioned officials and other matters. Question put and passed. Votes, No. 57, Fbiiiay, July 11, 1856. 8. Pensioned Officials:—Mr. Fox, Chairman of this Committee, brought up Ac-!:" rej ' , with the evidence of Mr. Sinclair, taken by the Committee, was ordered to be piuite .

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