§ MR. FRASER-MACKINTOSH (Invernessshire)asked the Lord Advocate, Whether a factor's clerk is qualified to hold the office of clerk or treasurer to a District Road Board in Scotland; whether, in the employment of a Road Board, wages earned by labourers at the making and repairing of roads can be appropriated by the clerk or treasurer in payment of rents and arrears due by 1267 labourers to their landlord; and, whether earned wages, intended by the labourer to meet his poor rates and prevent his disfranchisement, and left in the hands of the clerk or treasurer to a Road Board for this object, can be otherwise diverted by such clerk or treasurer?
§ THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. J. H. A. MACDONALD) (Edinburgh and St. Andrew's Universities)I cannot undertake to answer purely legal points on a bald and hypothetical statement contained in a Question; and, in any view, must decline to aid hon. Members with, professional advice on points of law through the medium of the Question Paper of this House.