§ COLONEL KING-HARMANasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether the Sub-Commissioner and other officers of the Land Courts, whose services have been recently dispensed with, only received ten days' notice that their engagement would terminate on the 31st; and, whether they will be given a month's pay from the date of the notice given to them?
§ THE SOLICITOR GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. WALKER) (for Mr. TREVELYAN)The term of Office for which the Assistant Commissioners and other officers were appointed expired on the 31st of July. There was no necessity, therefore, for giving any formal notice that their services would not be required after that date. The names of the Assistant Commissioners selected for re-appointment were announced in this House by my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary, on the 17th of last month, and on the 21st the Land Commissioners communicated with the Sub-Registrars. 98 There would, therefore, be no warrant for giving a month's pay out of the public funds, as suggested.