§ MR. BRYCE (Aberdeen, S.)asked the Lord Advocate, Whether there exists any revised edition of the Statutes of Scotland passed before the Act of Union, corresponding to the recently-published revised edition of the Ante-Union Statutes of the Parliament of Ireland; and, if no such edition exists, whether Her Majesty's Government will direct the preparation of an edition of all such and so many of the Statutes of the Parliament of Scotland passed before the Union as are still legally binding and effective, so that Scotland, as well as England and Ireland, may possess a complete edition of all her Statute Law now in force; and, whether, if legislation be needed for the purpose of repealing Acts whose authority has, owing to alleged desuetude, become doubtful, he will introduce next Session such a Bill as may be proper for the purpose aforesaid?
§ THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. J. H. A. MACDONALD) (Edinburgh and St. Andrew's Universities)There is no re- 674 vised edition of the Scotch Acts. I cannot, on behalf of Her Majesty's Government, enter into any undertaking in the direction pointed out by the hon. Member; but the matter will be looked into before next Session.