§ MR. BRUENsaid, he wished to ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Whether it is the intention of the Government to recommend that compensation shall be given to the county inspectors of weights and measures for the loss of their office, of which they have been deprived by Act of Parliament?
LORD NAASreplied that on the transfer of the inspection of weights and measures from inspectors appointed by grand juries to the constabulary, a proposal was made to give compensation to those officers. It was, however, negatived, and he conceived that were the proposal renewed it would not be likely to receive the sanction of the House.