§ Major Earl WINTERTONasked the Secretary to the Treasury what are the reasons for the refusal of the Lords Commissioners to refund the amount expended by the returning officer for West Sussex in 624W remuneration to presiding officers and poll clerks for attendance at a lecture to explain to them their duties of which the majority were unfamiliar?
§ Mr. BALDWINIn the opinion of the Treasury and the Local Government Board it was. unnecessary to collect these officers together in order to instruct them as to the nature of their duties. The scale fixed for returning officers' expenses did not allow of additional remuneration for this purpose, and the returning officer had no authority to promise or to pay it without previous Treasury sanction.