§ SIR J. JARDINEI beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland whether there is any official Return of the number and amounts of casualties collected in the last six years by the Duke of Roxburghe as Superior of Kelso, as compositions from his vassals in that burgh upon singular successions; and whether he can see his way to introduce a measure to confine the subject and amount of such casualties on singular successions to the land of the feu, buildings and other improvements thereon being excluded from the computation.
§ THE SECRETARY FOR SCOTLAND (MR. SINCLAIR, Forfarshire)So far as I am aware, there is no such official Return. The system which my hon. friend seeks to change has long been considered unsatisfactory and indefensible, but I am not able to give any undertaking to legislate upon it.