§ COLONEL WARING (Down, N.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether his attention has been called to the Rule issued by the Irish Land Commission, under the date of the 24th of March, 1888, whereby the expenses of proceedings before the Land Commissioners, which are already felt to press heavily on suitors, are seriously increased?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR) (Manchester, E.)The Land Commissioners inform me that the increase of solicitors' fees under the Rule of the 24th of March, 1888, which was laid on the Table on the 11th of April, was sanctioned by them in consequence of the Incorporated Law Society having brought under the notice of the Commissioners the small scale at which costs were fixed in ordinary cases of tenants from year to year, and the inadequacy of remuneration where leases existed which involved further labour and expense unless the scale of costs was increased.