§ MR. GREGORYmoved for a Return of all Civil Bill Ejectments entered at the suit of the Law Life Society before the Chairman of Quarter Sessions of the County of Mayo and the county of Galway, from Hilary Quarter Sessions, 1850, up to the present time, distinguishing the ejectments of each year.
§ MR. HODGKINSONsaid, that as a director of this Society, he should offer no opposition to any inquiry into the management of its property in Ireland; but as the Society did not acquire the property in question till 1852, he suggested that that date should be substituted for 1850; and as their Civil Bill ejectments were almost without exception merely proceedings for the recovery of rent, and were not followed by evictions, he proposed that the Return should also show the number of evictions which had taken place upon these ejectments.
§ MR. GREGORYdisclaimed any intention to take an unfair advantage of this Society, and would accept the hon. Member's first Amendment; but he could not assent to the second, because there were no means of ascertaining how many evictions had taken place.
§ Motion amended, and agreed to.
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Return ordered,
Of all Civil Bill Ejectments entered at the suit of the Law Life Society before the Chairman of Quarter Sessions of the county of Mayo and the county of Galway, from Hilary Quarter Sessions 1852, up to the present time, distinguishing the ejectments of each year."—(Mr. Gregory.)