§ [SECOND READING.]
§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
§ * THE SECRETARY FOR SCOTLAND (Lord BALFOUR of BURLEIGH)This Bill is a very simple one. The Lunacy Board! for Scotland has been established for about half a century, and at the time it was established a limit was put on the salaries which the Treasury might pay to the officers engaged by the Board. Since that time the scale of payment has risen. The limit of the secretary's salary, which is £420, is certainly inadequate, and the object of this Bill is simply to repeal the maximum salaries, and to leave these civil servants in the position of nearly all other civil servants in the various departments of the Crown, and to give power to the Treasury to fix a proper scale of remuneration. I ask your Lordships to give a Second Reading to the Bill.
§ Bill read 2a (according to Order), and committed to a Committee of the whole House on Thursday next.