§ SIR HENRY KIMBER (Wandsworth)I beg to ask the hon. Member for the Elland Division, as representing the Charity Commissioners, whether at the time the Charity Commissioners gave their sanction to the payment by the trustees of the Weir Charity of the sum of £5,000 out of the trust fund to the governors of the Bolingbroke Hospital, the proposed scheme under which the payment was purported to be made had been published by the Commissioners as 584 required by Section 6 of The Charitable Trusts Act, 1860, in order that persons interested might have the opportunity given to them by that section of objecting to the scheme; and whether he will state under what statute, and under what section thereof, the Commissioners have, or claim to have, power to authorise payment under a prospective scheme before the proposed scheme has been published and definitely settled in accordance with the provisions of the above-mentioned Act.
§ MR. TREVELYAN (Yorkshire, W.R., Elland)The proposed scheme in the matter of the Weir Charity has been drafted and will very shortly be ready for publication. It will be published so as to ensure full opportunity to all persons interested of making objections or suggestions, and any such objections or suggestions will be carefully considered. The circumstances in which the Charity Commissioners sanctioned the payment in question were explained in the Answer given by me to a Question by the hon. Member on the 23rd March last.
§ SIR HENRY KIMBERpressed for an Answer to the last part of the Question.
§ MR. TREVELYANsaid he thought his Answer sufficiently covered the point; otherwise, it would be necessary to give the details of a large number of sections.