LIGHT RAILWAYS BILL.

HC Deb 18 June 1896 vol 41 cc1338-9

MR. HERBERT LEWIS

I beg to ask Mr. Attorney General whether the Commissioners of Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues will have power, if the Light Railways Bill is carried in its present form, to give land for the purposes of a railway to be constructed under the Act, or to contribute to the cost of construction either by free grant or by taking shares in any company formed for the purpose of making the railway?

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (Sir RICHARD WEBSTER,) Isle of Wight

The answer is in the negative.