§ MR. KEAY (Elgin and Nairn)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury where information can be obtained regarding all persons to whom any Crown rights of fishings or foreshores in Scotland have been granted, sold, or leased before the 10th October, 1851, similar to the information regarding the same matters from that date to 1886, contained in the Return on the Motion of Mr. Macfarlane, No. 175, of 1886; if no such information has been furnished to Parliament will Her Majesty's Government have any objection to furnish such; what period could it be made to cover before 1851; and is there any objection to furnish similar information from the date of Mr. Macfarlane's Return up to the present time?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. JACKSON,) Leeds, N.There was no such information, practically, before 1851, and there have been very few transactions since 1886. Such as they are they have been before the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the Crown rights in the Scotch salmon fisheries. I understand that the Commission will very shortly present their Report. I hope the hon. Member will wait and see that Report, and any information which may not be given to him can be made the subject of another question.