LORD STANLEY OF ALDERLEYasked the First Church Estates Commissioner whether the Commissioners would pay half the legal expenses in the case of gifts or sales of sites for parsonages and burial grounds, as well as in the case of sites for churches?
§ * EARL STANHOPEIn the conveyance of additional burial grounds the Commissioners already pay half the costs of their own solicitors, and whore they have property the whole cost of the conveyance. In the case of parsonage sites the Commissioners pay their solicitors' costs where they have property, but where this is not the case they have not hitherto been able to pay the legal charges. I may say, however, that the question is under the consideration of the Board.