§ MR. FRASER-MACKINTOSHasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Whether Clerks of the Third Class in the Sasine Office, Edinburgh, do not perform duties of as responsible and difficult a character as Clerks of the First and Second Classes; and, whether the time has not arrived for the revision of the numbers of the Second Class in terms of the Treasury Minute of 27th March 1881, which provides that—
The numbers of the Second Class will be subject to revision hereafter, when experience shall have shown to what proportion of the Staff it may be necessary to entrust work which, while subordinate to that performed by the Assistant Keepers and First Class Clerks, is of a more responsible and difficult character than can be required from the Junior Clerks of the Department?
§ MR. COURTNEYSir, the Keeper of the Sasines Office is primarily responsible for the distribution of the work of the Office. The Treasury had received no representation from him that the amount of work of a responsible character which he performed by the junior clerks is more than is performed by the superior clerks.