§ MR. SEXTONasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1382 Whether his attention has been drawn to a Resolution passed by the Tubbercurry (county Sligo) Board of Guardians on the 27th ultimo, declaring that the Board had no funds to meet the instalment of the Seed Rate falling due on the 1st instant; that the collectors, owing to the circumstances of the country, had been unable to collect the Seed Bates; and that the Union Treasurer had refused to allow an overdraft; whether, in view of this state of facts in Tubbercurry and other Boor Unions in the West of Ireland, the Government will, as in the case of the Swinford Union, extend the time for payment of the instalment of the Seed Rate till the end of the present year, so as to give time to the ratepayers to realise the value of the harvest, and to the collectors to obtain payment of the Bate; and, whether the Government will consider the suggestion of the Tubbercurry and other Boards of Guardians that the collectors be authorised to collect the current Boor Bates without at the same time collecting the instalment of the Seed Rate?
§ MR. TREVELYANThe Local Government Board had not received a communication from the Tubbercurry Board of Guardians. The best answer I can make is that each case will be considered on its merits.