§ MR. O'HANLONI beg to ask the Attorney General for Ireland whether he will name a day upon which the Commissioners will sit in the town of Cavan to fix fair rents; whether it is a fact that many of the tenants have served notices for fixing fair rents so long ago as October, 1887, which have not yet been considered; whether many of the landlords are insisting upon the payment of the old rack rents; and whether the Government will allow this injustice to go on; and, if so, how long?
§ MR. MADDENThe Land Commissioners report that a sub-Commission has been sitting in the County Cavan since October last, and have on their present list 73 cases from the Cavan Union, and that further cases from that Union will appear on their next list. There are at present 298 cases outstanding from the Cavan Union, the originating notices in which were served before December 31, 1887. The Government have no information as to the matter referred to in the third paragraph, and no power in the matter; but I may add that under the Act of 1887 the judicial rent is made retrospective and the tenant is entitled to have refunded to him any sum paid by him in excess of the rate at which the judicial rent is fixed. The Commissioners are using every possible expedition in the fixing of judicial rents.