§ MR. FIRTHasked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether his attention has been called to the case of Mr. Hele, the district medical officer of Plomesgate Union, who, in obedience to an overseer's order, attended a boy for injury and amputated his leg, but the board of guardians, without assigning a reason, refused to pay him the fee to which he is entitled under Article 177 of General Consolidated Orders, 1847; whether the Local Government Board will extend the time fixed by 22 and 23 Vic. c. 49, so as to allow Mr. Hele to test the legality of such action of the guardians (such time having lapsed through Mr. Hele having been engaged in. Correspondence with the Local Government Board on the subject); and, whether he will lay upon the Table a Copy of the Correspondence which has passed on the subject between Mr. Hele, the Poor Law Guardians, and the Local Government Board?
§ MR. DODSON, in reply, said, that in the present state of the Correspondence he could not lay a Copy on the Table.