§ MR. DUNLOPsaid, he wished to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education, Whether, with a view to the Revised Code coming into operation in Scotland, the recent addition to the 52nd Article, as to the deduction of Salaries arising from endowment, the legal Salaries of Parochial Schoolmasters in Scotland are meant to be included under the provision in that addition?
§ MR. LOWEreplied, that the legal salaries of parochial schoolmasters were not intended to be subjected to the operation of the Minute with reference to endowments, inasmuch as they more resembled the contributions of charitable persons who were living than endowments; with this advantage, however, to the heritors that the assessments were made by a responsible public levy, and spread over the parish, instead of trusting, as in England, to the generosity of one man to make up for the parsimony of another.