§ MR. CRAIG SELLAR (Lanarkshire, Partick)asked the Secretary to the Treasury, If he can inform the House on what scale, or on what principle, the salaries of chaplains in the English prisons are fixed; and, if the salaries of chaplains in Scotch prisons are fixed on the same scale or principle; if not, if there is any objection to apply the English scale to the chaplains of Scotch prisons of the same size as to cell accomodation and daily average population?
§ SIR HERBERT MAXWELL (A LORD of the TREASURY)(who replied) (Wigton)said, the salaries of chaplains in both English and Scotch prisons were fixed on a general proportion to the average number of prisoners under their charge; and though it is difficult to apply the English scale, as a whole, to Scotland, I believe that there is little, if any, difference between them when fairly compared. A Memorial for increase of pay has recently been received from the chaplains and surgeons of the three largest Scotch prisons, so I am precluded from discussing the question further at present.