§ CAPTAIN NORTONI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he will take steps to enable Justices, acting by virtue of their office as Chairmen of Local Boards or Vestries, to sit on General Committees of Justices, by causing the several Committees to be elected in May instead of January as at present?
§ SIR MATTHEW WHITE RIDLEYI can only say at present that legislation would be necessary before the dates of electing all the Committees could be changed, and that I am at present in communication with the London Quarter Sessions on the subject.