§ MR. DILLON(for Mr. W. ABRAHAM) (Limerick, W.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Why the name of the Mayor was omitted from the Commission for the Assizes recently held in Limerick; who is the official responsible for this omission; and, by what authority has a time-honeured custom been departed from in this instance?
§ THE PARLIAMENTARY UNDER SECRETARY (Colonel KING-HARMAN) (Kent, Isle of Thanet)(who replied) said: There has been no exceptional course taken in the case of the Commission for the Limerick Assizes. The Mayors of municipal towns are not now included in the Commissions of Assize. There did not exist a custom of including Mayors in such Commissions, but it had become practically unmeaning; and, after full consideration, it has been abandoned in the case of all Commissions of Assize in Ireland.
§ MR. DILLONSince when was this custom abandoned?
§ COLONEL KING-HARMANWithin the last two years.