§ MR. ALPHEUS C. MORTON (Peterborough)I beg to ask Mr. Attorney General whether, when allotments of common lands, to be held "in common," and the roads giving access thereto have 466 been defined in the deposited public awards, and on the maps accompanying the same, by Commissioners under Inclosure Acts, either non-user of the rights conferred on such allotment holders, or adverse user by encroachment or otherwise, can legally destroy the effect of such award, or whether such awards are valid in all their terms and particulars for all time, unless subsequently altered under the powers of a statutory enactment having equal force with the original award?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (Sir ROBERT REID,) Dumfriessaid, he could not answer the question without some qualification, and his answer would have to take the form of a little speech If any points of public importance arose he should be glad, if he could, to supply an answer.