MR. MAC NEILL(for Mr. MAHONY) (Meath, N.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the number of applications for advances of purchase money under Lord Ashbourne's Act, which the Land Commissioners have refused to sanction, and the amount of money applied for under these applications; and, the number of applications subsequently sanctioned, in which the Land Commissioners have recommended a modification of the terms of purchase and the amount of the said modifications?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR) (Manchester, E.)The Land Commissioners report that up to the 10th of this month they had refused 434 applications for loans, amounting to about £317,000. Of these, 67 were subsequently sanctioned, the amounts of loans being reduced from about £61,000 to a little over £50,000.
MR. MAC NEILLasked the number of cases in which the Land Commissioners had recommended a modification of the terms of purchase?
§ MR A. J. BALFOURI must have Notice of that Question.