§ MR. HUBBARDsaid, he wished to ask the President of the Poor Law Board, Whether his attention has been directed to the decision in the Common Pleas on the 5th of February to the effect, "that lands 1200 charged with 'Corn Rents payable free of Rates' should be assessed at the full annual value, without making any deduction for the Corn Rent charge;" whether the Board accept that decision as declaratory of the law, and will communicate it to such parishes as have asked for information?
§ MR. C. P. VILLIERSsaid, in reply, that his attention had been directed to the decision in question, and, as a matter of course, the Poor Law Board had accepted it as declaratory of the law. If any parish or union, under entirely similar circumstances, applied to the Poor Law Board, they would be informed that that was the law as it stood on that point.