§ MR. BRADLAUGH (Northampton)asked the First Commissioner of Works, Whether it is proposed to let a piece of land on the banks of the Thames at Datchet on terms which will enable the tenant to fix any rate of charges for landing, or to prohibit any persons from landing; whether the piece of land has hitherto been used as the only public landing place at Datchet, the adjoining piece of land being used by the parish for landing ballast; and, whether he will consider the advisability of letting this small piece of land to the Local Authorities at a peppercorn rent, so that it may be in future used by the public as a free landing place?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. JACKSON) (Leeds, N.)(who replied) said: The piece of land in question, which is to be let by tender, is not used at present as a public landing-place; and therefore no stipulation has been made in the conditions of tender as to a maximum landing fee. Under the Land Revenue Acts the Commissioner of Woods has no power to let the land an suggested in the last paragraph of the Question.