§ MR. SEXTONasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether the local constabulary have reported that, on the 10th of last month, a landlord named J. T. Knox evicted a tenant named William Million, and a sub-tenant named Edward Gilgan, from the townland of Siberia, parish of Killaspagbrone, and county of Sligo; whether only Gilgan was reinstated; and, whether he was reinstated only in the capacity of a caretaker; whether it is the fact, as reported by Relieving Officer Feeney, at a recent meeting of the Sligo Board of Guardians, that the landlord violated the Law by not giving the Poor Law authorities of the district any notice of the eviction; whether the Irish Local Government Board wrote, on the 21st ultimo, to the Sligo Board of Guardians instructing them that the landlord, by his default, had subjected himself to a penalty of £20, which should be applied in relief of the rates of the eleotoral division; whether it is true that no steps have been taken to enforce the penalty; whether the readmission of one of the evicted persons 1958 as a caretaker leaves the liability of the landlord to the penalty unaltered, especially as he has issued public advertisements for the reletting of the lands, and the caretaker may at any moment he left without a shelter; and, what steps will be taken to recover the penalty for the benefit of the electoral division?
§ MR. TREVELYANThe Constabulary have furnished Reports in reference to these evictions. It is the case that Edward Gilgan, the sub-tenant, has been reinstated as a caretaker. He lived on the farm; whereas the other man, William Million, lived half-a-mile away. The Relieving Officer did assert that the landlord had violated the law by not giving the Poor Law Authorities of the district any notice of the intended evictions; but it now appears that he was quite wrong in this, as he has since found the notice among his papers. I have a copy of it here; it is dated the 27th of May, and the evictions took place on the 10th of June.