§ MR. HAYDENI beg, to ask the Attorney-General for Ireland whether the Local Government Board for Ireland had 287 acted within its powers in issuing an order making dispensary doctors ineligible for the position of county councillors; and, if not, whether he will state the authority under which the Board so acted?
§ THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. J. ATKINSON,) Londonderry, N.The Local Government Board have under the Poor Law Acts of 1837 and 1847 and 1848 and the Medical Charities Act of 1851 power to make, with the consent of the Lord Lieutenant, general rules relating to the qualifications, tenure of office, guidance and control of the officers of Poor Law Unions and Dispensary districts. Acting within this power, they made the rule referred to in the Question, disqualifying not dispensary doctors alone, but all paid Poor Law Union officers from being elected as county councillors.