Note 38 — Chapter IV · The Purchase of the Telegraphs

Special Report from the Select Committee on the Electric Telegraphs Bill, 1868.

Mr. Leeman examines Mr. Scudamore.

Question 2,330. “When the Bill was read a second time in the House of Commons, had you knowledge of the contents of the terms of the agreement between the Telegraph Companies and the Railway Companies, which enabled you to form any judgment financially as to what you might ultimately have to pay in respect of the Railway Companies?”—“No, I had not.”