§ MR. MENZIES (Perthshire, E.)asked the Secretary for Scotland, Whether his attention has been called to the recent prosecution of Messrs. Crichton, Burrelton, Perthshire, for contravention of a by-law regarding locomotives which had been approved by the Home Secretary in 1880, whereby Messrs. Crichton had. been fined for using waggons in Forfarshire, which it is legal and unobjectionable to use in Perthshire; if he will consider the question whether die power to pass a by-law for merely regulating the use of locomotives on roads includes the power to affect the construction of locomotives and waggons, which is carefully and minutely specified in a separate section of "The Locomotives Act, 1878," as regards locomotives, and in various Statutes as regards waggons; and, whether he will in future endeavour to aim at introducing greater uniformity into the by-laws made by road trustees when granting or withholding his approval to such by-laws?
§ THE SECRETARY FOR SCOTLAND (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR) (Manchester, E.), in reply, said, he was aware of the inconvenience that arose on account of the divergence of the bye-laws in different counties. Whether that inconvenience should be remedied by special legislation, or in a Local Government Bill for Scotland, was a question for consideration.