§ MR. BIGGAR (Cavan, W.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Is he aware that it is the custom at Bawnboy, county Cavan, for the police to insist on having receipts which purport to represent actual payments from persons from whom the police hire cars on public, although the actual payment does not take place for months after; and, whether he will take means to have the irregularity remedied?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Mr. JOHN MORLEY) (Newcastle-on-Tyne), in reply, said, he understood that this practice had prevailed at the place mentioned. It was explained that the police did not insist on having receipts, and that the interval before payment seldom exceeded a few days. However, the practice was clearly irregular, and would be at once put a stop to.