§ SIR HERBERT MAXWELLasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, When the scheme by the Treasury for the readjustment of the salaries of the commissioned clerks in the Sasine Office, Edinburgh, will be ready to come into operation; and what is the reason of the delay?
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURTSir, I have communicated with the Lord Advocate upon the subject, and he informs me that since the present Government came into Office the consideration of the departmental arrangements of the Re- 424 gister House has only been delayed until the new Deputy Clerk Register, appointed in April last, has had time to acquaint himself with the various questions involved, and to give the Government the benefit of his advice. Two gentlemen have been appointed from the Treasury and Home Office respectively to confer with the Deputy Clerk Register with a view to the immediate settlement of the question.