§ MR. T. B. CURRAN (Donegal, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether Mr. Baird, of Moville, has been appointed receiver over the dissolved loan fund society at Carndonagh, County Donegal, at a salary of £50 per annum; and, if so, out of what funds will this salary be paid; whether he is aware that the usual system of payment to receivers holding similar positions is at the rate of 5 per cent. commission and expenses; and whether any competent applicant from the town of Carndonagh applied for the receivership upon such terms.
§ MR. ATKINSON (for Mr. G. W. BALFOUR)Mr. Baird, of Moville, has been 1274 appointed receiver over the Carndonagh Loan Fund Society, not at a salary of £50 per annum or any other fixed annual sum, but at a commission, or percentage, to be hereafter decided upon, which will be paid from the assets of the dissolved society. The answer to the second inquiry is in the affirmative. The clerk of the local loan fund applied for the receivership without specifying any terms as to the payment. The Loan Fund Board, in the exercise of their undoubted rights, preferred the other applicant.