§ MR. ROBERT WALLACE (Edinburgh, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland if he can say whether any and what grant has been made to the Board of Manufactures in Scotland for the purposes of the National Gallery of Art there; what accumulations of this grant have been made by the Board, and for what purpose; and whether the grant was intended for the purchase of Old Masters, or for the benefit of the present School of Painters, or for what else?
§ THE SECRETARY FOR SCOTLAND (Sir GEORGE TREVELYAN, Glasgow, Bridgeton)A grant has been made of £1,000 per annum for five years commencing in 1891–92, with freedom to accumulate the money. The present accumulations including interest amount to £3,000. They have been made for the purpose of acquiring one or more specially important and valuable pictures. There is no limitation as to the class of pictures upon which the grant may be expended, the Board as trustees of the gallery, being left unfettered in their choice.