§ Mr. WATTasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether the salary of Mr. Macrae, who has had to abandon his duties in the sheriff clerk's office in Perth on account of blindness and to whom the Treasury have refused any honorarium or allowance, was remitted to him regularly by the Treasury, and a receipt given for it and exhibited to the Treasury; whether the sheriff clerk had to consult the Treasury before he could have dispensed with Mr. Macrae's services; and whether these facts constitute employment by the Treasury?
§ Mr. MASTERMANMr. Macrae's salary was not remitted to him by the Treasury, but was paid by the sheriff clerk out of a general allowance for deputies and clerks. Receipts were 2051W required as evidence of disbursement by the sheriff clerk, not of payment to any specific individual. The answer to the last two parts of the question is in the negative.