Lieut.-Colonel WATTS-MORGAN:

If these words remain in the Clause, does it not mean that the Department will have the power of taking the whole of the amount that may have been paid in the interval between the first week in January and the last week in March? You say, "Make adjustments." I think I am putting a very plain question. Does it not give you the power to take the whole of the money that has been paid by way of advances from the first week in January until the last week in March?