§ MR. ARTHUR O'CONNORasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether it is a fact that instalments of County Cess, repayable under the provisions of the Relief of Distress (Ireland) Act, 1880, section 13, have been levied on the Barony of Slievemarigue, in the Queen's County, as ordinary County or Grand Jury Cess, and that the Cess collector therein has refused to give receipts, distinguishing the amount paid under presentments pursuant to the aforesaid Act from the rest of the Cess payable for the half year, stating that his orders from the Grand Jury were not to do so; whether, 825 in consequence of such refusal, the Cesspayers are unable to deduct from their landlords the half of such payments, as provided by the said Act, and have now paid the entire of nine instalments on three loans without being afforded the means of making any deduction; and, whether, having regard to the facts stated, he will direct the Secretary of the Grand Jury, the Cess collector, or the parties responsible to have the provisions of the Act carried out in relation to the distinguishing of such instalments for ordinary County Cess?
§ MR. TREVELYANI have received this Question only in time to telegraph to Dublin, so as to insure that the subject might be brought before the Grand Jury. There has not yet been time to ascertain the facts of the case.