§ MR. WEIRI beg to ask the Lord Advocate if the Secretary for Scotland will grant a Return showing the acreage of each parish in each of the six Highland crofting counties, the population of each parish for the years 1851-2, 1861-2, 1871-2, 1881-2, 1891-2, the poor rate, the cost of the maintenance of the poor, and the acreage under cultivation in each parish in each of the years indicated?
MR. GRAHAM MURRAYThe information desired by the honourable Member under the first head of his Question will be found by him in Slater's Directory; under the second head in the Census Returns; and under the third and fourth heads in the Annual Reports of the Board of Supervision and Local Government Board. All these books he will find in the library. I have no source of information, nor do I believe that any exists, for the statistics desired under the fifth head. Under the circumstances, the Secretary for Scotland does not see his way to granting the Return asked for.