§ MR. P. M'GILLIGAN (Fermanagh, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he is aware that the list of cesspayers in county Fermanagh, from which is selected the six who sit with the justices of the peace in each barony at the various Presentment Sessions, contains 95 names, three only being Catholics, and that there are a large number of Catholics with higher valuation than those of other denominations placed on the list; and will attention be directed to this matter with a view of having the existing state of affairs altered?
MR. JOHN MORLEYThe Secretary to the Fermanagh Grand Jury reports that the selection of the Cesspayers associated with the Justices at Presentment Sessions is in strict accordance with law. The Executive has no powers over the Grand Jury, nor is that body responsible to the Executive for the manner in which it performs its fiscal business. The Secretary to the Grand Jury informs me he has no means of ascertaining the proportion of Roman Catholics on the list in question.