§ MR. FFRENCHI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether the appointment as a Grand Juror of Wexford of Mr. J. J. Percival, junior, who lives in lodgings and pays no county rates, was valid, having regard to the provisions of Section 31 of the Grand Jury Act of 1836, which provides that the Sheriff shall place first on the panel for each barony or half barony the name of some person having in such barony or half barony freehold lands of the yearly value of £50 and upwards, or leasehold laud of the value of £100 over and above the amount of rent payable thereout?
MR. J. MORLEYI am informed that the gentleman named in the question was not on the Grand Jury. This statement, I take it, applies to the last Assizes. When at Wexford he resides with his sisters, who are rated occupiers, and he himself owns freehold property of the value of more than £50 yearly, on which he pays county cess.