§ DR. FARQUHARSON (Aberdeenshire, W.)I beg to ask the Lord Advocate whether it is legal for the minister of a rural parish in Scotland to occupy a seat on the Parochial Board of his parish, on which six other members of his parish already sit, his own qualification to sit as a member of the Board being exclusively conferred on him as a member of the Kirk Session?
§ THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. J. B. BALFOUR, Clackmannan, &c.)By the 22nd section of the Poor Law Act, 1845, not more than six members of the Kirk Session may be members of a Parochial Board. Accordingly, where a minister has no other qualification than that conferred upon him as a member of the Kirk Session, and there are already six members of the Session upon the Board, he is not entitled to occupy a seat there.