HL Deb 26 April 1869 vol 195 c1575
THE EARL OF MINTO

asked the Government, What arrangements have been made for printing and distributing, from time to time, the evidence taken before the Courts of Law Commission (Scotland)? The Scotch Law Commission held its first sitting on the 5th of December, 1868; and on the 31st of December it had already held thirteen sittings, and had received a mass of evidence sufficient to fill 350 pages of an ordinary blue book of the octavo size with closely printed matter; but nothing was distributed to Members of Parliament or Peers till Friday, the 16th of April. It would be well that, in future, the evidence should be printed, if possible, at quicker intervals.

THE EARL OF MORLEY

said, that the amount of evidence taken since the last publication was so small, only three witnesses having been examined, that it had not been thought worth while to embody it in a Report.