§ MR. FENWICK (Northumberland, Wansbeck)asked the President of the Local Government Board, Whether agricultural labourers who are hired by the year and occupy houses on the farms on which they are employed, the occupation of such houses being part of their wages, will be entitled to vote for members of the County Council?
§ THE PRESIDENT (Mr. RITCHIE) (Tower Hamlets, St. George's), in reply, said, that under the conditions stated in the Question agricultural labourers would be entitled to a vote.
§ MR. STANSFELD (Halifax)asked, whether the right hon. Gentleman was aware that Clerks of the Peace had been advising overseers to omit such occupiers from their lists?
§ MR. RITCHIEsaid, he was not aware of the circumstances mentioned by the right hon. Gentleman; but he would inquire into them.
§ MR. FENWICKasked, whether the right hon. Gentleman was aware that in the North of England a large number of agricultural labourers, who lived in houses as part of their hiring, had been refused in their requests to have their names put on the Register?
§ MR. RITCHIEsaid he would inquire.