§ MR. CUMMING BRUCEsaid, he wished to ask the Lord Advocate, Whether his attention has been directed to the Sheriff Court Returns called for by the hon. Member for Montrose in 1863, laid upon the table of the House, and ordered to be printed during the present Session; and whether it is his intention to recommend to Her Majesty's Government, or submit to Parliament, any measure to remedy the inadequacy and inequalities in the salaries of some of the Sheriff's Substitute, as apparent in these Returns?
THE LORD ADVOCATE, in reply, said, a great deal of the information required by the Returns was not to be found in the offices. It was not necessary to introduce any Bill for equalizing the salaries of sheriff's substitute. That might be regulated by the Treasury without any Act, and was at the present time under their consideration.