§ Captain GILMOURasked the Lord Advocate if he had received a petition from a committee representing the ordinary clerks in the various sheriff clerks' departments in Lanarkshire; and, if so, whether he was prepared to include the ordinary staff of clerks within the scope of the inquiry into the position of sheriff clerk deputes?
§ Mr. UREThe answer to the first part of the hon. Member's question is in the affirmative, and to the second part in the negative.
§ Mr. WATTAre we to understand that only sheriff clerks depute have grievances in their offices and that the sheriff clerks on the ordinary staff have not?
§ Mr. UREThe sheriff clerks depute are embraced within the enquiry, but not the ordinary clerks, who are servants of the sheriff clerks.