§ SIR EDWARD GROGANsaid, he wished to ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland, If he received a statement from the Lord Mayor and Municipal Council of Dublin on the 29th of September, 1861, praying that the Citizens of Dublin might be relieved from the support of Lunatics not belonging to the Dublin District, and that additional Governors for the Richmond Lunatic Asylum might be selected from the Municipal Council?
§ SIR ROBERT PEELin reply said, he had received a statement from the Lord Mayor and Municipal Council of Dublin at the time mentioned, but the hon. Baronet must know that the law as regarded Dublin was the same as was in force all 2096 over Ireland, and the Government had no intention of exempting Dublin from the general law with respect to the chargeability of lunatics. As to the request that additional Governors for the Richmond Lunatic Asylum might be selected from the Municipal Council, there were some difficulties in the way of such an arrangement, but the subject was under the consideration of the Lord Lieutenant.