HC Deb 10 August 1882 vol 273 cc1375-6
MR. DICK-PEDDIE

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, If he will lay upon the Table of the House that portion of Messrs. Gurdon and Morton's Report to the Treasury (of date 3rd February, 1881) on the position, duties, and requirements of the several departments affected by "The Lord Clerk Register Act, 1879," which describes-in detail— The system of the Registration of Land Rights, the indexing of Registers, and the method of searching for incumbrances affecting land, as it formerly existed, and as it is now carried on; and, if he will also lay upon the Table any recommendations made by Messrs. Gurdon and Morton as to the classification of the clerks in the Sasine Office, and the salaries to be paid to the several classes?

MR. COURTNEY

I will present to the House that portion of Messrs. Gurdon and Morton's Report which describes the system of registration and searching as it formerly existed, and as it now exists, and is carried on, as it may be of general interest. It would be contrary to practice to publish that portion which relates to administrative details, and it would be misleading to publish the recommendations as to salaries, because they formed only a part of the information on which the Treasury acted in fixing the salaries; but I may mention that the amount which they proposed to insert in the Estimate for the Sasine Office was less than that actually voted for the current year.