§ MR. MAGNIACasked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether, considering that general discontent prevails with regard to the present Law 1057 of Highways, and that in the last Session Her Majesty's Government would not agree to the appointment of a Select Committee of this House, they will take active steps to procure information on this subject?
§ MR. DODSON, in reply, said, he was not surprised that considerable discontent prevailed with regard to the present law of highways; but the only reason why a Select Committee of the House had not been appointed to inquire into the subject was that a Committee of the House of Lords was last Session occupied with such an inquiry, and had been re-appointed this year. There was no reason to doubt that the information thus obtained, together with that already in the possession of the Local Government Board, would be sufficient to enable him to deal with the question, as he hoped to do, in another Session.