§ "7. £50, Supplementary, The Mint, including Coinage."
§ Vote agreed to.
§ "8. £891, Supplementary, Public Record Office."
§ DR. CLARKI should like to ask whether there ought not to be a reconstruction of this Department? As far as Scotland is concerned the fees received pay not only the salaries for the Scotch officials, but also those of the Registrar-General as well, and I do think there might well be a revision of the scale of fees. Otherwise we in Scotland must consider it a grievance that we have to pay not only the cost of our office, but also the salary of the Registrar-General, which should come out of the Imperial Exchequer.
§ THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir R. WEBSTER,) Isle of WightThe honourable Member is quite right. There has been a large reorganisation of the office, consequent on the very large increase of business coming into it. Even under the old system the office practically paid its way, and I can assure the honourable Gentleman that the question of reducing the scale of fees is now under consideration. It is impossible to say what the result will be, but I have no doubt it will be satisfactory to the honourable Gentleman and his friends.
§ Vote agreed to.
§ "9. £1,300, Supplementary, Valuation and Boundary Survey, Ireland."
§ Vote agreed to.