§ CAPTAIN NOLANasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Whether the Irish fishermen can obtain loans under "The Irish Reproductive Loan Fund Act" of 77 last Session, pending the publication of bye-laws by the Commissioners of the Board of Public Works; and, when will such bye-laws be published, and for how long have such bye-laws been before the Irish Privy Council waiting their sanction?
§ SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACHIt is not the duty of the Board of Works to publish the bye-laws under the Irish Reproductive Loan Fund Act. It rests with the Inspectors of Irish Fisheries to issue notices on the subject, with forms of application for loans. It is expected that those will be issued early next week. The bye-laws in question were approved by the Irish Privy Council on the 13th of January. The delay was due to a bye-law having been proposed which the Law Officers did not think was authorized by the terms of the Act.