§ MR. COX) (Clare, E.I beg to ask the Attorney General for Ireland how many agrarian outrages were committed in County Clare since 1st July last year; the number of cases of firing at the person or into houses; how many of these had police protection; the number of persons made amenable; and the extra Police Force stationed in the county, and their cost?
§ *MR. MADDENThe Constabulary Authorities report that the number of agrarian outrages committed in the County Clare since July 1st, 1889, is 61, 664 of which six were cases of firing at the person and 21 firing into dwellings. In none of these 27 cases had there been police protection, and no person have, so far, been made amenable in regard to to them. According to the last completed accounts, which are for the year to March 31st last, the extra force in this county numbered 168 men, and the-charge against the county in respect to them was £5,603.