§ MR. S. CRAWFORDmoved for leave to bring in a Bill for better securing the payment of Irish rates. He wished to secure the payment of the rates now payable, according to law, by tenant and landlord. He proposed they should be levied on the landlord's rents, as the rates now were, according to the 6 and 7 Vic, which made the landlord liable for the rates of a certain class of tenantry, and that in case of any rates of absentees or others not being paid, there should be power vested in the Courts of Chancery or Exchequer to appoint receivers on the estates till the rates were paid.
§ Leave given.