§ MR. FOLEY (Galway, Connemara)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that the Barony Constable of the Barony of Moycullen, in the County of Galway, has, in the collection of the summer cess of 1889, charged the cess-payers one halfpenny in the pound in excess of the rate passed by the Grand Jury; and, if so, will he say on what principle and for what purpose such, excess is demanded and received, as appears, by certain receipts now in hand, ready to be produced if desired?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURThe Secretary to the Grand Jury of the County of Galway has favoured me with a statement to the effect that the correct rate for the Summer 1889 Grand Jury Cess in Moycullen Barony is 1s. 4½d., but that in the Query Book the halfpenny was omitted through a printer's error, which may have misled the collector when getting his forms of receipt originally printed. The Warrant subsequently issued which directs him to make the collection contains the correct rate.