MR. BRYN ROBERTSI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury on what basis or principle payments are made by the Treasury in relief of the expenditure that high sheriffs are put to in the discharge of their duties; and, whether he will grant a Return of such payments made to each county during the last five years?
§ THESECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. R. W. HANBURY,) PrestonThe payments referred to have been 272 made according to long-standing custom dating back at least to the commencement of the 18th century. There is a good deal of information on the subject in the evidence taken by the Lords Committees of 1888 and 1893 on Sheriffs. A statement of the amount paid in each county in 1894–5 will be found on page 225 of the last volume of Civil Judicial Statistics, and perhaps these figures will serve the hon. Member's purpose.