MR. CATHCART WASONI beg to ask the Lord-Advocate if the attention of the Crofters' Commission will be called to the constant overstocking of land, the grazing of which is held in common, with the view of considering the best method of checking such overstocking.
THE LORD-ADVOCATE (Mr. SCOTT DICKSON, Glasgow, Bridgton)The attention of the Crofters' Commission has been directed to the matter of overstocking of common pastures by crofters. The Commissioners recognise the importance of devising a sufficient method of checking or preventing overstocking, but the matter is one of great difficulty, and no remedy has at present been devised.