§ MR. KEAY (Elgin and Nairn)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with regard to the Return Land Purchase (Ireland) (Names of Landowners), No. 81, of 1889, whether he can state, in reference to the particulars in the column headed Rental, what amount of the rental of £214.922 14s. 4d. consists of non-judicial rents, what amount consists of judicial rents fixed under the Act of 1881, and what amount consists of judicial rents revised under the Act of 1887; whether he will arrange that in the continuation of the above-named Return, to be presented on the Motion of the right hon. Member for Newcastle, the three classes of rents above alluded to will be separately set forth; and whether he will state the numbers of the above-mentioned three classes of tenants respectively subsisting in Ireland up to the latest available date?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURThe Land Commissioners report that it would not be practicable to make the distinction indicated in the first paragraph of the question without investigating every individual case, which would be a work of considerable labour. I may, however, point out that judicial rents were not 544 revised under the Act of 1887. The enactment referred to solely provided for the temporary adjustment of such rents for the years 1887,1888, and 1889. A reference to the monthly Return of proceedings of the Land Commission, which is regularly laid before Parliament, will show the number of cases in which judicial rents have been fixed. There is no record of the number of tenants who have not had judicial rents fixed.