§ 83. Mr. C. EDWARDSasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether any communication has reached him from the County Councils' Association with reference to amending the Local Government Act, 1888, so that the Clerk of the Peace shall not be ipso facto clerk of the county council, and that the county council shall have the right to appoint their own clerk and have power to terminate his appointment on such terms as may be agreed upon and what is his intention in the matter?
§ Major Sir HARRY BARNSTONThe Home Secretary asks me to say that no such communication has reached him.