§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether his attention has been directed to the remarks of Mr. Justice Darling at the Guildford Assizes on Monday last, who, in sentencing the chief clerk in the employ of the deputy surveyor and collector of Crown rents, Windsor Great Park, to a term of imprisonment for forging a receipt in order to cover defalcations, said that, having regard to the salary of the prisoner, which was only £1 16s. per week, and the money which passed through his hands every year of nearly £12,000, he had been placed in a position of great responsibility; and, if so, whether any steps will be taken to impress upon the collectors of Crown rents the propriety of paying more generously the servants by whom the duties appertaining to these offices are in the main discharged.
§ THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. ELLIOT, Durham)The clerk referred to had been employed for a long period, and was gradually given more trust and responsibility by the deputy surveyor than the Commissioner of Woods was aware of. The 335 question as to the duties of the deputy surveyor and the staff required in his office is under consideration.