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THE EARL OF ONSLOW moved for—
A Return of all charitable trusts in England and Wales the trustees of which are trustees within the meaning of the first and fourth clauses of the Allotments Extension Act, 1882.
He did not press the Motion in the exact words in which he had placed it on the Paper, but hoped that the Lord President would be able to grant the substance of his Motion, and add a column to the Return showing the acreage held by these Trustees.
§ THE LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (Earl SPENCER)said, that there would be no practical difficulty in granting the Returns asked for, only they would be given in a different form. As to the addition of the acreage, he had not yet been able to communicate with the Charity Commissioners, and he was unwilling to promise such a Return, because it would be difficult and costly to obtain the information. He had inadvertently fallen into an error the other day with reference to the date at which 1874 the Returns would be made. Instead of being made in June, they were not usually made until September. The special Returns moved for by the noble Earl would probably be presented before November.
§ In reply to Viscount CRANBROOK,
§ EARL SPENCERsaid, that the Return moved for would be supplemental to the ordinary Agricultural Returns.
Return of all charities known to the Charity Commissioners, the income of which is shown to he distributable in articles in kind or in money, in the "General Digest of Endowed Charities" laid before Parliament on the motion of Lord Robert Montagu between the years 1868 and 1876, as supplemented by the information subsequently acquired by the Charity Commissioners; and distinguishing those charities the income of which may be otherwise applied in pursuance of schemes established by the Charity Commissioners; Ordered to be laid before the House.—(The Earl of Onslow.)