Excerpt from The Parliamentary Debates, Vol. 129: Fifth Session of the Twenty-Seventh Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 4 Edward VII., Comprising the Period From the Second Day of February, to the Sixteenth Day of February 1904, First Volume of Session 1904Office. Old ministry. Rt. Hon. Arthur J. Bal four, m.p. Lord President of the His Grace the Duke of devon shire, k.g. Rt. Hon. Earl of halsbury. Secretaries of State Home Department Colonial Office. War Office. Chancellor of the Exchequer. First Lord of the Admiralty. Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Chief Secretary for Ireland. Lord Privy Seal.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.