§ MR. R. WALLACE (Edinburgh, E.)I beg to ask the Lord Advocate whether he can state the nature or composition of the Committee that in 1889 recommended the abolition of the Office of Director of Chancery for Scotland as a separate office; and to what Department of the Register House it is proposed that the establishment should be transferred?
§ THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. J. B. BALFOUR,&c.) Clackmannan,The Committee was a Departmental one, appointed by the Secretary for Scotland to inquire in regard to the Sasine Office and the Office of Director of Chancery, and it was composed of the late Lord Lee, Mr. James Auldjo Jamieson, then Crown Agent, and the late Mr. J. J. Reid, then Queen's Remembrancer. The proposal of the Committee was to transfer certain statutory duties, which still appertain to the Office of Director of Chancery, to other officials, but I do not find that it was suggested that they should be transferred to any particular Department of the Register House.