MR. MACKINTOSHasked the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether the Grant of £1,000 to the Lord Clerk Register of Scotland for the publication of Calendars and Scotch Historical Records has been discontinued in whole or in part; and, if so, to state the causes of its discontinuance?
§ MR. W. H. SMITHThe grant, Sir, has not been discontinued, either in whole or in part. If the hon. Gentleman 1758 refers to the Estimates of last year, he will find there is there a Vote for £1,000, and a similar Vote for £1,000 is proposed for this year. The whole of the money was not spent in 1875-6, in consequence of the death of one of the editors employed in the work, and therefore a considerable portion was surrendered to the Exchequer.