§ MR. R. WALLACE (Edinburgh, E.)I beg to ask the Lord Advocate—(1) what are at present the regulations for the taking of private employment, as waiters or otherwise, by macers, messengers, housekeepers, and other subordinate officials in the Court of Session, Exchequer, Register House, and other Government Departments in Edinburgh; and, (2) whether the Government intends to make it a rule for the future that no such official shall take any private employment as waiter or otherwise?
§ * THE LORD ADVOCATEBy the rules applicable to such subordinate officials, they are not allowed to take private employment during official hours or at any time that would interfere with the proper discharge of their official duties. But they are at liberty to dispose as they please of the time which is not assigned to their public duties. The answer to the second paragraph is in the negative.