§ MR. ARTHUR O'CONNORI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Clerk of the Union of Strabane last year published the removals in the Tyrone part of the Union and not in the East Donegal portion; and whether he will be willing to furnish a Return showing the Unions in Ireland in which the English practice as to registration of successive inhabitant occupiers is carried out?
§ MR. JACKSONI am informed that the practice is as stated. The Clerk of the Union in Donegal adopted the course stated, in consequence of an expression of opinion of the County Court Judge on the law relating to qualification by succession.
§ MR. ARTHUR O'CONNORI wish to ask the right hon. Gentleman whether he will take steps to see that a uniform practice is followed in all the Unions of Ireland?
§ MR. JACKSONI am not aware that I have any power to interfere.
§ MR. ARTHUR O'CONNORWill the right hon. Gentleman favour the assimilation of the practice in Ireland to that in England?
§ MR. JACKSONI understand it is rather a question of law and as such could have been easily decided.