§ MR. BURTasked the Vice President of the Council, If he can state whether it is a fact that in February last the Charity Commissioners were asked for a copy of the balance sheet of the Burk-stone-le-Willows (Lincolnshire) Charities; that the Commissioners replied that no balance sheet had been received for many years, though application had been made to the clergyman for one; that no balance sheet can be obtained, from the Charity Commissioners, or from anyone else; and, if the facts be correctly stated, whether he can compel obedience to the Law, which makes it imperative that these returns shall be published annually?
§ MR. MUNDELLASir, no accounts of the Charities in this parish having been received at the office of the Charity Commissioners for several years, they caused an application to be made for them to the rector and churchwardens on the 26th of February last. Accounts for the years 1876, 1877, 1878, and 1879 were received on the 21st of March, 1881, but, being imperfect, were returned for the purpose of amendment. 1914 They have not since been received back; but the application for them has been renewed, and their production will be required by the Charity Commissioners.