§ MR. MCCARTAN (Down, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he will state if any Land Commission Court valuers, now engaged in the County Down were Sub-Commissioners who fixed the first statutory term on the same holdings which they are now inspecting, in order to review the reductions made by other Sub-Commissioners for the second statutory term; and, if so, whether he will consider the desirability of advising the discontinuance of this objectionable practice?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURI am informed that one of the Assistant Commissioners, who has recently been employed to value for the Land Commission in cases arising out of appeals from the decisions of Sub-Commissions fixing 232 fair rents for second statutory terms in the County Down, was one of the Court of the Sub-Commission who fixed the same rents for the first statutory term. I have no power to advise the Commissioners as to any action they may think fit to take, but I will call their attention to the hon. Member's Question.