MR. O'CONNOR POWERasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, If he will state to the House the circumstances under which Richard Archdeacon, formerly Petty Sessions Clerk for Mitchelstown, ceased to fill that office; whether Archdeacon resigned or was dismissed; if it is true that a sum of money, amounting to more than £100, received by him in fines that were imposed from time to time at the Petty Sessions of Mitchelstown and the Petty Sessions of two other districts in which also Archdeacon served as clerk, was accounted for by him; and, if it is true that since Archdeacon ceased to fill the office of Petty Sessions Clerk, he has been awarded a pension; and, if so, what is the amount of said pension?
§ SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACHMr. Archdeacon was obliged to retire 322 from his office, having become mentally and physically incapable of performing his duties, and was awarded a pension of £33 5s. a-year on the recommendation of the magistrates of the district. All moneys received by him up to the time at which he ceased to act as Petty Sessions clerk were duly accounted for by him.