§ SIR GEORGE GREYsaid, he rose to postpone the Highways Bill till Thursday week, adding that, as some other business preceded it on the Paper, he was not sure it would come on upon that day.
§ MR. FREELANDsaid, he wished to 1039 ask the hon. Member for Merthyr, Whether he will send Copies of the Returns from the Surveyors of Welsh Highway Districts in Glamorgan, which he has sent to the hon. Member for Leominster, to the Home Office, in order that they might be moved for as a Return; whether he will also send Copies of the Questions addressed to the Surveyors; and if he can state whether the Welsh Surveyors generally include footpaths and mountain tracks in their Returns of Highways, on the mileage of which the average expense of £6 per mile for annual repairs is calculated?
MR. H. A. BRUCEsaid, the Returns and Questions referred to had, as stated, been sent to the hon. Member for Leominster, and he (Mr. Bruce) had not the slightest objection that the hon. Member should furnish them to the Home Office if he thought proper to do so. With respect to the last question, he could give no specific answer; but he presumed that footpaths and mountain tracks, not being Highways, were not included by the Welsh Surveyors in their Return.