§ MR. TULLY (Leitrim, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Local Government Board are aware that Mr. Matthew Creegan, of Clooncoose, South Leitrim, whose valuation is £3 15s., has been obliged twice to pay the poor rates with costs by the rate collector, Mr. Charles Pope; and whether, as the landlord, Colonel French, is liable to pay the poor rates for all tenants under £4 valuation, the Local Government Board will direct that these rates be collected in future from the landlord of this estate?
MR. J. MORLEYThe Local Government Board are informed by the Clerk of the Mohill Union that the Magistrates in Petty Sessions decided that the landlord was not liable for the rates in this case, Creegan being rated in common with another person at £5 5s., and the landlord only recognising one tenant. The question having been deter- 1126 mined by a legal tribunal, the Local Government Board have no power to interfere in the matter.