§ MAJOR NOLAN,in moving for leave to bring in a Bill for the security of Tenants' Improvements in towns in Ireland, said, there was another Bill of very nearly the same nature introduced by his hon. and learned Friend the Member for Cork (Mr. M'Carthy Downing), and he would wish to explain that the two Bills were not quite the same. Though his own Bill might be very useful, it would also be very necessary that the Bill of his hon. and learned Friend the Member for Cork should be introduced. His Bill was one which would remedy a very crying defect in the legislation of Ireland at the present moment. In 1870 the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Greenwich brought in a Bill to protect the improvements of tenants in Ireland, and it not only protected their improvements, but also gave to a large number of tenants in Ireland the right to a certain compensation for disturbance. The Bill which he (Major Nolan) wished leave to introduce would not in any way interfere with or extend the disturbance clauses of the Land Bill of 1870 to tenants in towns; but the object of the Bill would only be to allow those tenants the right to compensation for such bonâ fide improvements as they had actually made. That was to say, that if under the Bill which he proposed the tenant was disturbed, he should not be in any way worse off with regard to his improvements than if he resided in the country. As, however, he saw the House was somewhat impatient, he would merely ask leave to introduce his Bill.
§ Motion agreed to.
§ Bill for the security of Tenants' Improvements in towns in Ireland, ordered to be brought in by Major NOLAN, Mr. PATRICK MARTIN, and Mr. O'SULLIVAN.
§ Bill presented, and read the first time. [Bill 50.]