§ MR. SEYMOUR KEAY (Elgin and Nairn)I beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland whether he will explain why the labours of the Royal Commission on Highland Pasture and Deer Forests are confined to the six counties in which the Crofters Acts are at present in force; and whether, as the same conditions of agriculture obtain in Moray and Nairn as in these six counties, Her Majesty's Government will direct the Commission to extend its labours to these counties?
§ SIR G. TREVELYANThe Royal Commission was appointed in order to obtain information with regard to those counties to which Parliament by the Act of 1886 applied the provisions relating to the enlargement of crofters' holdings. The Government are not prepared to extend the operation of the Commission beyond the bounds of those counties