§ Lieutenant-Colonel BURGOYNEasked the President of the Local Government Board if he will state the number and 604W designations of borough and local councils in the United Kingdom to sit on which clergymen and ministers of religion are at present disqualified by law?
§ Dr. ADDISONClerks in Holy Orders and the regular ministers of dissenting congregations are by Section 12 (1) (b) of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, disqualified for being councillors of municipal boroughs in England and Wales, of which there are 328. I am not in possession of the corresponding information for Scotland and Ireland.