§ MR. DODD (Essex, Maldon)I beg to ask the Parliamentary Charity Commissioner whether he is aware that, in the Draft Scheme now proposed by the Charity Commissioners for the Charities of Harwell, Berks, the majority of the Trustees are not elected by the ratepayers, as required by the Resolution of this House; whether he will, before the Scheme is approved in its present form, consider whether it could with advantage be altered so as to be similar to that recently approved for Suuningwell, Berks; whether he can inform the House upon what grounds it is by the Scheme proposed to devote of the Charity left by John Loder one-half to the purposes of the Church: and whether that appropriation has been objected to by a public meeting held in the village?
§ THE PARLIAMENTARY CHARITY COMMISSIONER (Mr. T. E. ELLIS,) MerionethshireIn the result of objections elicited by the publication of the Draft Scheme in this case the Commissioners have decided to assimilate the Governing Body (subject to the retention of existing Trustees) to that constituted by a recently established Scheme for the Charities of Sunningwell. It is not proposed to devote any portion of Robert Loder's Charity for education to Church purposes. Objection has been taken at a public meeting in the village to the proposed application to the maintenance of the parish church and its furniture of one-half of John Loder's Charity, which was given for the repair of the church and of the highways, the relief of the poor and such like pious uses. This objection will be carefully considered by the Commissioners.