§ MR. HUGH ELLIOT (Ayrshire, N.)asked the Lord Advocate, Whether it would be consistent with the Educational Endowments (Scotland) Act to appoint a Select Committee to consider such schemes of the Educational Endowments (Scotland) Commissioners as may from time to time be laid upon the Table of the House, and against which Addresses to the Crown are moved; and, if so, whether the Government will consent to the appointment of such a Committee for the purpose of inquiring into, and reporting upon, each such scheme before a decision is taken upon it in the House?
§ THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. J. H. A. MACDONALD) (Edinburgh and St. Andrew's Universities)It would not be consistent with the Educational Endowments (Scotland) Act to appoint a Select Committee to consider schemes. The Act provides a mode of doing this, which must be followed, and the Government could not consent to the appointment of such a Committee.