§ MR. WHITLEYasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If he could inform the House what is the salary of the Recorder of Dublin; how many working days did he sit in the year 1883; and, how many of those days were occupied in the revision of jurors' or voters' lists?
§ MR. TREVELYANThe salary of the Recorder of Dublin is fixed by statute at £2,500 a-year. It appears, from Returns which have been furnished from the officers of the several Courts over which the Recorder presides, that in 1883 he sat on 162 days, of which 20 were occupied in the revision of voters' and jurors' lists. It is necessary to add that by law the sittings of the Recorder for the revision of the Parliamentary lists are fixed to begin on the 8th of September in each year. I am informed by the Recorder that his summer sittings in the Civil Bill Court last late into August, and that he resumes these sittings on the 1st of October, without any interval between the Parliamentary Revision and the Civil Bill Court duty. In this way the pressure upon the autumn quarter is greater than at any other period of the year.
§ MR. HEALYasked whether it was not the fact that the Recorder last year threatened that he might be unable to finish the year's work within the statutable time; and whether, in such au event, a legal question would not arise involving the disfranchisement of the county of Dublin?
§ MR. TREVELYANYes.