§ MR. HUMPHREYS-OWEN (Montgomeryshire)To ask the hon. Member for West Salford, as Church Estates Commissioner, whether the sum of £8,540 10s. 1d., entered in the Common Fund Account of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England under the head of legal expenses, includes the sum of £3,037 14s. 6d. entered in the summary of trust accounts as cash paid for legal expenses: and whether he will state the total legal expenses of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in each of the ten financial years last past.
(Answered by Sir Lees Knowles.) The following Table contains the amounts paid by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England for legal expenses for the ten years ending 31st October, 1903, as shown in the Reports to Parliament.
§ grant to teachers of evening schools in Borris-in-Ossory, Castletown, and Rathdowney, Queen's County, will be paid: and whether he is aware that the examinations were held last February, and that no payments have yet been made.
1181§ (Answered by Mr. Wyndham.) I am in formed that the grants have now been paid.