Return to an address from the House of Commons, dated 28rd February, 1870, calling for a "statement shewing the names of the contractors on the Intercolonial Railway who have thrown up their contracts, together with the names of their sureties, the length of the road, the nature and description of the work to be done, and the price agreed to be paid on each contract so thrown up, the work done by each of them respectively and the amount paid to each: the contracts resumed by the commissioners, and the amount paid to them by the sureties in order that they might be released from their warranty, and by what sureties paid: shewing, also, whether any of the work so resumed by the commissioners has been again given out by contract, and if so when, to whom, and at what price: also, shewing who are the sureties, where they reside, and the nature of their occupation."
