§ MR. KER SEYMERsaid, he wished to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether it is the intention of Her Majesty's Government to adopt so much of the Site of Smith field Market as reverts to the Crown for the enjoyment and recreation of the public? From the Report of the Commission of 1856 he inferred that there is some dispute as to whether a certain portion of the ground belonged to the Crown, and he wished to know whether any steps have been taken to bring that question to a decision.
SIR GEORGE LEWISsaid, that the question had remained unsettled for a long and inconvenient period of time, and it was very desirable that it should be settled. A correspondence bad taken place between the Treasury and the City with respect to the rights of the Crown over a portion of the Site, and he was able to state that the City had prepared a plan by which a considerable portion of the Site—the chief portion in fact—over which the claim of the Crown extended, would be dedicated to the enjoyment and recreation of the public. The plan also involved a portion of the ground belonging to the city.
§ MR. KER SEYMERDoes that plan include a Dead-meat Market.
SIR GEORGE LEWISsaid, the plan in question involved a portion of the ground belonging to the City, and also a small portion of the site belonging to the Crown, which would be used as a Dead-meat Market.