§ MR. WEIR (ROSS and CromartyTo ask the Secretary for Scotland, whether he has received copies of resolutions passed at a recent meeting of the inhabitants of Cromarty and district protesting against the petition of the procurators of Tain and Dingwall to discontinue the monthly courts at Cromarty; and, seeing that the removal of cases arising in the Cromarty district to either Tain or Dingwall for trial would entail great hardship on litigants of small means on account of the extra expense such a course would involve, will he consider the expediency of arranging for the monthly court at Cromarty to be continued as at present.
(Answered by Mr. Sinclair.) I have received copies of the resolutions referred to by my hon. friend, but no petition for the discontinuance of the monthly courts at Cromarty has reached me.