§ MR. A. C. MORTON (Peterborough)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether the public are entitled to see documents deposited at the offices of the Woods and Forests, on payment of fees; and, if so, whether such fees are on the same scale for inspection and copies as at the Record Office and the Board of Agriculture.
§ *SIR J. T. HIBBERTThe public are not entitled to inspect documents deposited at the Office of the Commissioner of Woods and Forests unless they have been given the right in any special cases by statutory provision. In such cases no fees would be charged except those (if any) specified in the special Act. If my hon. Friend intended his question to apply to the Land Revenue Records Office, I may inform him that there, too, the public have no general right of inspection except under the same conditions of special statutory provision, but that it is the practice of the Department, at their discretion, to give facilities to the public on payment of cash fees of 3s. 4d. for inspection and 1s. a folio for copies.