§ MR COCHRANE (Ayrshire, N.)To ask the Lord Advocate whether, in view 1265 of the fact that there is now a vacancy in the offices of sheriff and commissary clerk at Ayr, he will, in any re-arrangement, consider the claims of Kilmarnock as a convenient business centre for the county.
(Answer.) The new arrangements rendered necessary by the death of the commissary clerk of Ayrshire are at present under the consideration of the Treasury, and the whole matter will be duly considered by the Secretary for Scotland and myself, but I do not think it is at all probable that the commissariat of Ayrshire will be treated in a different manner from that of all the other Scottish counties.—(Scottish Office.)