 | Books - 1863 - 798 pages
...to be designated, " The Committee of Public Accounts," for the examination of the accounts, showing the appropriation of the sums granted by Parliament to meet the public expenditure. CHAPTER V. AKJIY, NAVY, AND FORTIFICATIONS — Sir OC Lewis moves the Army Estimates, and enters into... | |
 | Alpheus Todd - Constitutional history - 1867 - 688 pages
...committee, styled 'The Committee of Public Accounts,' for the examination of the accounts, showing the appropriation of the sums granted by Parliament to meet the public expenditure, to consist of nine members, who shall be nominated at the commencement of every session, of whom five... | |
 | Ephraim Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1870 - 858 pages
...Fund Bill, or as it is often called, the Appreciation ЛШ. By a standing order of April 3, 1SIV2, a standing Committee of Public Accounts is appointed...appropriation of the sums granted by parliament to meut the public expenditure. Taxes of a permanent and general character are not now considered in the... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1878 - 298 pages
...committee, to be designated " The Committee of Public Accounts," for the examination of the accounts showing the appropriation of the sums granted by Parliament to meet the public expenditure, to consist of eleven members, who shall be nominated at the commencement of every session, and of whom... | |
 | Sheldon Amos - Constitutional history - 1880 - 548 pages
...be designated " the Committee 'of Public Accounts," for the examination of the ac' counts, showing the appropriation of the sums granted ' by Parliament to meet the public expenditure, to con' sist of eleven members, who shall be nominated at the ' commencement of every session, and... | |
 | Samuel James Watson - Canada - 1880 - 172 pages
...Committee, styled 'The Committee of Public Accounts,' for the examination of the Accounts, showing the appropriation of the sums granted by Parliament to meet the Public Expenditure."* CHAPTER V. PRIVILEGE IN THE PROVINCE OF LOWER CANADA. WE shall now inquire how the Legislature of the... | |
 | George Rose Emerson - 1881 - 472 pages
...appointment of a standing Committee of Public Accounts, for the examination of the accounts, showing the appropriation of the sums granted by Parliament to meet the public expenditure. The powerful speech on Italian affairs, delivered in reply to Sir George Bowyer, on the nth of April,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1882 - 1160 pages
...Committee, to be designated 'The Committee of Public Accounts,' for the examination of the Accounts showing the Appropriation of the sums granted by Parliament to meet the Public Expenditure, to consist of nine, who shall be nominated at the commencement of every Session, and of whom five shall... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - Parliamentary practice - 1883 - 994 pages
...members, is nominated at the commencement of every session, " for the examination of the accounts, showing the appropriation of the sums granted by Parliament, to meet the public expenditure." It has been ruled that debates and amendments upon the Debates on different stages of the Appropriation... | |
 | Albert Venn Dicey - Constitutional law - 1885 - 430 pages
...Committee of the House of Commons—a Committee appointed for the examination of the accounts— showing the appropriation of the sums granted by Parliament to meet the public expenditure. This examination is no mere formal or perfunctory supervision ; a glance at the reports of the Committee... | |
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The Committee of Public Accounts is appointed by the House of Commons to examine "the accounts showing the appropriation of the sums granted by Parliament to meet the public expenditure, and of such other accounts laid before Parliament as the committee... 
