§ MR. CUNINGHAME GRAHAM (Lanarkshire, N.W.)I beg to ask the Lord Advocate whether his attention has been called to the fact that, on the death of Mr. Donald, the late Commissary Clerk of Lanarkshire, in 1887, the commissary work devolved on the district deputes, but no increase of salary was given to the district deputes until 1st April, 1889, and that increase of salary was then given by the Sheriff Clerk, not out of the £850 added to his emoluments for commissary work, but out of money rendered available for 525 distribution, as at March, 1889, in consequence of the removal of Mr. Wilson, one of the deputes at Glasgow, to the office of Procurator Fiscal at Hamilton; whether the additional clerk sent to Hamilton at a salary of £60 was sent in direct response to the request of a deputation of the Hamilton Court Procurators, who complained of the undermanned condition of the Hamilton Office; and, if he can explain the reasons for which Mr. Wood, chief of 'the Process Room in Glasgow, was promoted to the deputeship rendered vacant by the removal of Mr. Wilson, and the Sheriff Clerk promoted his own son to Mr. Wood's place as Chief of the Process Room over the heads of other clerks of longer service?
§ * MR. J. P. B. ROBERTSONI must ask the hon. Member to postpone the question, as I have not yet received the particulars.