§ COLONEL NOLANasked the Secretary to the Treasury, What directions has the lock-keeper at Meelick as to the management of the sluices; if, last year, the Lower Callowss were flooded before the sluices were raised; and, are the Board of Works aware that, if the water rises to within one or two inches of the surface of these Callows, it rots the sheep and sours the grass?
§ MR. HIBBERTThe directions are that the sluices at Meelick should be 490 kept open whenever the water rises above summer level. I am informed that in 18H4 the Callows were not flooded before the 3rd of November, and that on that day all the sluices at Meelick were opened. The Board of Works are aware of the bad effect of such flooding.