MR. PHILIPPS (Lanark, Mid)asked the Lord Advocate, What use the Clerks of Kirk Sessions have made of the sums they have obtained in various parishes of Scotland by their exaction of the excessive fee of 10s. for publishing the banns on a single Sabbath?
§ THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. J. H. A. MACDONALD) (Edinburgh and St. Andrew's Universities)I am unable to answer this Question. Any person who feels aggrieved at having paid more than the proper fee can raise a small debt action asking restitution, and so have the point settled.
MR. PHILIPPSasked, who got the money; was it the Clerks of Kirk Sessions or the Established Church?
§ MR. J. H. A. MACDONALDasked the hon. Gentleman to give Notice of the Question, as he was not at present in a position to answer it.