_Q._--According to the Military Reports before us, page 18, on line 940: "Women were registered, tickets issued, and bi-monthly inspections made between March, 1890, and May, 1892; it was brought to my notice in May, 1892 that tickets were being issued to prostitutes in Meean Meer; I ordered the discontinuance of the practice at once, and it was reported to me on the 17th of May, 1892, that no registration of prostitutes in any form whatever then continued;" and it appears from what you have now produced, that at any rate requisitions were made as late as the 15th of June; that is so, is it not? _A._--Yes. _Q._--Of those requisitions on that date, the 15th of June, as well as on several other dates, do you find some, and how many, issued for the Royal Artillery Bazaar? _A._--I counted twenty that were for the Royal Artillery Bazaar women. _Q._--Have you seen the Report of the Commanding Officer for the regiment dated 19th June, 1893, and does it state that no tickets had been issued for the regiment since February, 1891? _A._--Yes, I saw that statement; it is page 2 of the supplementary sheet, line 95, under Meean Meer. The statement of Captain Goff, commanding the Royal Artillery. That note says, "No registration of prostitutes or issue of tickets in any form whatever has ever been carried out by the Royal Artillery since the present battery came to the station, February, 1891." _Q._--What you find is that twenty tickets were issued? _A._--It is since February, 1891, according to this book some twenty tickets have been issued for the Royal Artillery. _Q._--Up to what date? _A._--Up to June 15th, 1892. _Q._--You produce a ticket here which you obtained from one of the women; what was the date of that ticket; was not the date of the year 1892? _A._--It was dated 1892; that we procured at the Artillery Bazaar. _Q._--Did I understand you to say that you found twenty tickets were issued to the women of the Artillery? _A._--Yes, twenty counterfoils left are of the Royal Artillery. _Mr. Stansfeld to the Committee_--That fact, which is testified to by the counterfoils of this book, is inconsistent with the statement of the Commanding Officer in his Report. These are but a few of the many instances in which the official records sent to London for inspection, contradicted the testimony of military officers. The first sitting of the Departmental Committee was April 11, its last sitting August 15, and its report was circulated in Parliament September 11, 1893.