§ MR. FLAVINI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that the Irish Land Commission, in order to avoid the delay and expense of litigation in getting fair rents fixed by the courts, has issued circulars to the effect that where landlord and tenant consent and sign a form, the Land Commission would send two court valuers to inspect the farms and fix fair rents accordingly; whether the agents to Trinity College at Cahirciveen, county Kerry, refused to agree to the terms of said circular when approached on the subject by the tenants residing in the town lands of Gurrane-bane, Gurraneevagh and Cahirciveen; and whether he will represent to the Land Commission that such refusal on the part of the representatives of Trinity College will cause great expense and delay to the tenantry on the property, who will now have to go before the courts to have fair rents fixed.
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. G. W. BALFOUR,) Leeds, CentralThe procedure referred to in the first paragraph is based altogether on the voluntary assent of the parties, and such assent must be signified by their signing in the prescribed form the consents on which alone the Land Commissioners can act. I have no information as to the matter mentioned in the second paragraph.