THE O'CONOR DONasked the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether, considering the number of uncompared and consequently comparatively unreliable documents existing in the Registry of Deeds Office, Dublin, as shown by the Returns lately presented to Parliament, he will cause a searching inquiry to be made into the whole system under which 324 deeds are registered in Ireland; and, if he consents to such inquiry, how soon is there a probability of its being commenced?
§ MR. W. H. SMITHThe Government intend to cause an inquiry to be undertaken both into the law and the system, the machinery, and the operation of the existing machinery for the registration of deeds in Ireland. That inquiry is considered to be of so great importance that it will be undertaken by a Royal Commission; and I hope the names of the gentlemen to be appointed on that Commission will be shortly announced.