§ MR. HEALYasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether it is the fact that the Sub-Commissioners Messrs. Greer, Headlake, and Ross, while investigating the cases of the tenants against the Salters' Company at Magherafelt, stayed at the house of a Mr. Young, employed by the Salters' Company; whether he is aware that the tenants considered that this must tend to prejudice their case; and, whether he will cause the Land Commission to give instructions that Sub-Commissioners should avoid having relations with either party to the cases which may be brought before them?
§ MR. TREVELYANHaving referred this Question to the Sub-Commission alluded to, I have received a report from Mr. Greer, stating that they have not investigated a single case on the estate of the Salters' Company, no such cases ever having been listed to that Commission. The Sub-Commissioners are staying in lodgings in the house of a Mr. Young, where they were recommended to go by the County Court Judge, who also occupied them. They did not consider it desirable to put up at the hotel, as it was filled with solicitors, valuators, and other persons interested or concerned in the cases before them. Mr. Greer adds that he has never spoken to Mr. Young, and would not know him if he saw him. With regard to the final paragraph of the Question, the Land Commissioners inform me that they have determined in their own case, when they go circuit to hear appeals, to decline absolutely all hospitality offered to them, and they have earnestly recommended each of the Sub-Commissioners to adopt the same rule.