§ MR. COBBI beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether a loan contracted by a Rural Sanitary Authority for the purchase under "The Allotments Act, 1887," of land for allotments for any particular pariah, is ultimately repayable, first as to principal, and secondly as to interest, out of the rates of the whole rural sanitary area, or out of the rates of the parish only for which the allotments have been provided, in the event of there being a deficiency after applying all receipts in respect of the allotments which are properly applicable towards the repayment of such loan and interest; and whether the security for the repayment of such loan to the lender is upon the rates of the whole rural sanitary area?
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. RITCHIE,) Tower Hamlets, St. George'sThe principal of a loan contracted by a Rural Sanitary Authority for the purchase under the Allotments Act, 1887, of land for allotments for any particular parish and the interest in respect of the loan during its continuance are payable out of the rates of the parish for which the allotments have been provided. The security for the repayment would be the rates of the parish, and not the rates of the whole rural sanitary district.