§ SIR EDWARD GROGANsaid, he wished to ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Whether any applications from persons formerly engaged on the Valuation of Ireland, or on the Census Commission of 1851, for temporary employment on the Irish Census of this year had been made to the Lord Lieutenant; and whether the special qualifications acquired by such previous services be recognized by the Government as a ground of preference for such temporary employment?
§ MR. CARDWELLsaid, that such applications had been made. With regard to those who had been employed on the Census of 1851, their claims had been recognized by the appointment of all who had been recommended by the Registrar General for re-appointment, and they had been excepted from the rule which required them to satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners before they received their appointment. With regard to all others, their recommendations were respectively considered, and those selected had been obliged to satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners as to their fitness for the service.