§ MR. HADFIELDsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether the Commissioners for Crown Lands are authorized or accustomed to grant sites for churches of the Established Church without charge; and, whether they are authorized or accustomed to refuse to sell land for sites in good situations, and on reasonable terms, for the erection of places of worship by Nonconformists?
§ MR. HUNTsaid, that the Commissioners for Woods had no power, as such, to grant lands for the purposes of sites for churches. The regulations in that respect were laid down by the 10 Geo. IV., c. 50. That Act conferred special powers to grant sites for churches and chapels, clergymen's residences and schools on the hereditary estates of the Crown, provided the extent of land were not beyond five acres, or its value above £1,000 in any one case. After the sale or leasing of Crown lands, the Commissioners had power to grant certain portions for the erection of places of worship, and in the exercise of that power, the Commissioners had frequently granted leases of land, for Conformist places of worship.