§ MR. BRADYsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department why the Returns, ordered on the 29th day of July, 1858, "of the number and the names of the Taxing Masters of the Court of Chancery in England; of the several Clerks in their offices, and the dates of their several appointments; and Statement of the duties of each, the hours 1353 of their attendance, the salary paid to each, and the authority under which paid," has not been made? And why, as the Act 5 & 6 Vict., c. 183,S. 9, fixes the salary of the Clerks in the office of Taxing Masters at £250 a year, and the Act 15 & 16 Vict. c. 40, raises such salary to £350 per annum, some of such Clerks are paid £120 a year only, and on what authority has the provision of the last-mentioned Statute been departed from?
SIR GEORGE LEWISsaid, the order for the Return referred to by the hon. Gentleman had been made so near the end of the Session that there was not time to comply with it, and it never had been renewed, as it ought to have been, after the assembling of the new Parliament. If the hon. Member would repeat his Motion, the particulars asked for would be furnished. With regard to the second question, the Act alluded to fixed the salaries of the Chief Clerks in the Taxing Office at the sums the hon. Gentleman had mentioned; but there was also another class of clerks in the same office, whose salaries were not specified in the Act, but were fixed by the Lord Chancellor at £120 a year.