§ DR. MACGREGOR (Inverness-shire)I beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland whether, in the new Bill for the Amendment of County Government in Scotland, he will consider the question of afforestation in the Highlands and empower County and Parish Councils to levy rates in their respective districts, or borrow money on the security of those rates, in order to plant tracts of land now of little or no value locally or nationally?
§ THE SECRETARY FOR SCOTLAND (Sir G. O. TREVELYAN,) Glasgow, BridgetonSuch a proposal as the hon. Member refers to would come within the scope of the Bill, and it will be in his power to raise the question in Committee.