§ MR. PHILIPSasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether there is any objection to the mayor of Bury, Lancashire, he being duly qualified and having taken the correct oaths, taking his seat on the county Petty Sessional Division bench, to exercise jurisdiction within the borough of which he is the mayor?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS,in reply, said, that whilst guarding himself against 15 being supposed to give an accurate interpretation of the law, he was of opinion that the mayor was entitled to be present, and to preside at any meeting of county justices held within the borough, so far as the justices were acting in relation to the business of the borough; but they were not so acting when they were enforcing the general law of the land.