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PARLIAMENTAIIY

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-JULY 28.

(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of
Commons.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.
And whereas by the Act 3 and 4 Will. 4, hereinbefore
cited, it was enacted that the said company shall with
all convenient speed, after the 22d day of
.April, ,
close their commercial business and make sale of a`
their merchandise, stores, and effects, at home and
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abroad, distinguished in their account books as win
mercial assets, and all their warehouses, lands, tenements,
and hereditaments, and property whatsoever, 0111,
may not be retained for the purposes of government of
the said territories, and get in all debts due to them ell
account of the commercial branch of their affairs, and
reduce their commercial establishment ac the same oho
become unnecessary, and discontinue and abstain from
all commercial business which shall not be incident te
the closing of their actual concerns, and to the co.
version into money of the property hereinbefore
directed to be sold, or which shall not be ear;
tied on for the purposes of the said Government
and whereas the said East India Company have CO1!
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tinned to carry on the manufacture and sale of sal
from the date of the said act to the present time, r
withstanding the aforesaid provision : and whereas it ie
expedient that the said salt monopoly should absolutelY
cease and determine : be it enacted, that from and gig
the Ist day of May, 1856, it shall be unlawful for the
said East India Company to continue the manufacture
of salt as at present carried on by them in tho provmr
of Bengal, and that such manufacture shall absolute I
cease, whether carried on by the East India Compen
or on the account and under the control of the eat
Company, and that the manufacture and sale of sell
India shall be absolutely free, subject only to
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Excise or other duties as may now, or from time to "r"'
to be levied upon such salt so manufactured. Motion
made and question put, " That the said clause be Irilf
read a second time." The house divided : Ayes, 11'
Noes, 107.

MAJORITY—AYES 117.
Alexander, J. Greville, Colonel s'. Muntz, G. Frederick Ball. John Grogan, Edward Mu:rough, J. P.
Barnes, T. Hadfield, George Newark. Viscount
Bar ow, William H. Hamilton, Loru C. Noel, Hon. G.
Bell, James • Hamilton, Geo. A. Norreys, sir D.
Bigg-, William Eastie, Alexander Oakes. J.
Blackett, J. F. B. Heywood, James Parker, R. T.
Stair, Colonel Heyworth, L. Pileingtoit. JOAO
Booth, Sir R. 11111, Lord Arthur E. Price, W. P.
Brocklehut s', J. Horsfall, Thomas B. Rfcardo, 0.
Bruce, H. A. • Hotham, Lord ilunbury, IV. Hume, J. Russell, F. C.Snd, ( lleorge
Calms. ki . M'Calmont Hume, W. Fitzwilliam Scobell, c, ;pt.
Carnac, Sir J. Rivett Hutchins, a gcott, Fra mils
Cayley, E. S Johnstone, James Semer, Ei. K.
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Chaplin, IV. J. Joldffe, Sir W. G. H. Syeymer, H. D.
Cheetha, -./ohn Jones, Capt.
CO 11 N! I, John .. Kelly, Sir F. Smith, John Abel
Smith, John,. B. „ _
Col) old, J. U, :Kendall, N. Stanhope, James i"
Cofflii. W. , Kennedy, Tristram Stanley, L3ri.l
Corry, H. L. /Urinals], A F. 'quart, Lord D. •
Crook, Joseph Laffan, R. M. Sull•van, M.
Diem. li, Benjamin Langton, H. G. Swllt, IL
Dune: ri, G. Langton, W. G. Thompson, Genre'
Dunlop, A. Lewisham, 1 d Tyler, Sir G.
Dunne. Colonel Liddell, H. G. Vance J.
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Egerton, W.
Egert 'n, E. Locke, Joseph Vyse, Capt.
Elmley, Visc. Lockhart, W. Walcot, Adm.
1, ed den, M. Lucas, F. W.,lmsley, Sir J. ~
Ferguson. Joseph Macartney. G. Walpole, Sencerr
Fitzgerald, Sir J. M'Canu, James Whalley, George I'l'
Floyer, John Macgregor. James Williams, Willis'
Foley, John H. Magulre, John F. Wise, A.
Frevren, C. 11. Mandeville , Viscount York, E. T.
Galway, Viscount Manners, Lord J.
Goderich, Viscount Meux, Sir Henry
Goold, IV. Miall, E. TELLERS.
iiraham, Lord M. W. Miles, W.
Greene, J. N owbray, J. Packington, Slr J.
Gregson, Samuel Mullings, J. R. Phillimore, J.

MINORITY—NOES, 107.
Adand, Sir T. Graham, Sir James Osborne, Ralph
A'Court, C. Grenfell, C. Palmer, R.
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Adderley, C. Hestie, Archibald Palmerston, Vbleed
Bagshaw, J. Ileadiam, T. E. Peel Frederick
Bailey, Sir J. Ileathcoate, G. Pellatt Apsley
Baines, M. T. Herbert, Sidney Pinney, William ,
Bass, Michael. Thos. Hervey, Lord Alfred Pollard-Urquhart, T''
Bethel], Sir Richard Hindley, Charles
Bonham-Carter, J. Hogg, Sir James W. Rituusinseb°ll,ldL'oCrd. EJ0.11.11
Bouverie, E. Howard, C. W. G. .Russell F. WW.
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Bowyer, George Hutt, William Saclleir, J.
Boyle, Col. Ingham, ttobert Sadleir, John
Bramston. T. W, Inglis, Sir R. H. Sawle, C. B. G.
moiherton, Joseph Jocelyn, Viscount Scully, F.
Browue, C alentine Keating, Robert Seymour, Lord
Bruce, Lord Ernest Keogh, William Smith, M. Tucker
Butler, Charles S. Laing, S. Smith, R. V
Cardwell, Hon. E. Lowe, Robert Spot mer, R.
Child, Smith Macgregor, Joha S-irl.'ng, W.
Clay, Sir W. Maddock, Sir H. Strut;t, E.
Cockburn. Sir Al Mangles, R. Thornely; T. Cowper, W. Marjoribanks, D. Towns hand, Capt.
Craufurd, E. H. J Masterman, J. Vane, Lord Ham
Dasiiwood, Sir G. H. Manic, Colonel Villiers, Rt. 1111. V'
Denison, E. Milligan, Robert Vyvyai t, Sir R.
Denison, J. E. Mills, T. Warner,. Edward
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Dering, Sir Edward Milnes, R. M. Wickhat n. Henri "
Dundas, P. Michell, William wigraml, L. I'.
Elcho, L• rd Moleswortb, Sir W. Williams., M.
Fagan, William Morick, Lord Wilson, J.
Fergus, J. 31 ousel, William Wood, Sir C.
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Ferguson, Sir Robert Morris, D. Wortley, J.,s. Sttiro•
Fitzroy, Henry Mostyn, E. M. Young, Sir John
Forster, J. Mulgrave, Earl
Freestun, Colonel Mure, Col. TELL) tAS
Gladstone, William O'Brien, C. Hayter, W. G.
Goodman, Sir George 0 Connell, D. Bailey, Sir J.