§ COLONEL NOLANasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If the district about New Garden, Tuam, is perfectly quiet; and, if he will now relieve the cesspayers by removing the temporary police barrack established there?
§ MR. TREVELYANAlthough the district about New Garden is peaceable, the Constabulary authorities do not think that the police barrack there could be safely removed at present. It was erected for the protection of a landlord, who is believed still to require such protection. The district is not charged with the cost of the extra men, as it is not proclaimed under the Prevention of Crime Act.
§ In reply to a further Question from Colonel NOLAN,
§ MR. TREVELYANsaid: The probability is, that it involves the county in the cost of the extra police. But a very vigorous inquisition is being made throughout the recently disturbed districts in Ireland to see where the number of extra police can be diminished as much as possible; and I have had, only to-day, a Report from the divisional ma- 81 gistrate of a district where most of these police are stationed, in which he informs me that, in the course of the month, he has diminished the number of extra police enormously. It follows from that, that the burdens upon the counties will be very much less indeed in three months than they were nine months ago. They are already much less than they were 12 months ago.