Part of Oral Answers to Questions — British Army. – in the House of Commons am ar 28 Mehefin 1933.
Major Murdoch Wood
, Banffshire
asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs whether he will consider the advisability of proposing to the Irish Free State the submission of the question in dispute about the payment of the land annuities to a tribunal of five members, consisting of two members chosen by each country from within the British Empire, and a chairman from outside the British Empire nominated by the four members already selected?
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
