§ 35. Mr. HOGGEasked the Secretary for Scotland if he will say who were the owners of the site of the Calton Prison at the time the prison was built; whether 1168 the owners at that time were granted a charter of the land; whether a price was ever paid for the land; whether the estate vested in the Prison Commissioners by the Prisons Act of 1877 was vested subject to all liabilities affecting the land at that date; and whether the Prison Commissioners are bound to discharge those liabilities before transferring the land to any other Department?
The SECRETARY for SCOTLAND (Mr. McKinnon Wood)I am not in a position to make an authoritative statement on the points raised by my hon. Friend so far as they relate to a period anterior to the date at which the site was by Act of Parliament vested in the Prison Commissioners. As regards the position under the Act of 1877, I can only refer him to the terms of that Statute.