MR. MCLEODI beg to ask the Lord Advocate why, an appointment having been made a considerable time ago to the office of Sheriff Clerk of Sutherland and Clerk to the Justices of the Peace of that county, the duties continue to be discharged by the interim clerk; and, whether the terms of appointment confine the holder to the discharge of his official duties and debar him from private practice, as in the case of his predecessor?
§ THE LORD ADVOCATEI have to inform the hon. Member that the Sheriff Clerk of Sutherlandshire has now assumed office and taken up his duties. The terms of his appointment debar him from private practice.