§ MR. SINCLAIR (Falkirk, &c.)I beg to ask the Lord Advocate whether a person who is entered in the Valuation Roll as tenant but not as occupier, where no occupier is entered nor the premises marked "empty," is entitled to vote at a School Board election in Scotland?
§ *MR. J. P. B. ROBERTSONUnder Section 1 of the Valuation Act of 1854 it is expressly provided that the Valuation Roll shall set forth in the case of all lauds and heritages the names and designations—
Where there are tenants or occupiers, of the tenants and of the occupiers thereof respectively.I am unwilling to assume that in any case this plain statutory duty has been neglected, and that no name has been entered in the column for occupiers in the case of any occupied property. But if such neglect has occurred I am unable to say that any person, whose name is 756 not entered on the Valuation Roll as an occupier, can vote in that character at a School Board Election.