COLONEL CHAPLINasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, How it is proposed to provide for the governors and other gaol officials whose services will cease with the disestablished prisons on the Prisons Bill becoming Law?
MR. ASSHETON CROSS, in reply, said, the 32nd section of the Prisons Bill provided that the governors and officers of the discontinued prisons should be dealt with precisely in the same way as the officers and governors of those prisons which were discontinued under the Act of 1865—namely, they would be paid compensation out of local rates. No doubt the opportunity would be taken by a good many old officers connected with the continued prisons of resigning their posts; and, as far as possible, the officers of discontinued prisons would be absorbed in those gaols which might be continued.