§ MR. MACALEESE () Monaghan, N.I beg to ask Mr. Attorney General for Ireland whether he is aware that, under the provisions of the Representation of the People Acts, only four days are allowed to the clerks of the peace in Ireland namely, from 20th to 24th August in each year—for the collating, printing, and publishing of notices (whether official or otherwise) of objections to the names of persons on existing register, or who may have claimed to be inserted thereon: that out of these four days clerks of the peace are entitled to deduct the time necessary for collating and making out fair lists of the written objections sent in; and that the time left for printing these lists is thereby reduced to a period insufficient for the proper performance of the work: and whether, in view of the importance of providing proper lists for revision., he will direct clerks of the peace to furnish the fair copy of their lists of objections to the printers not in any case later than the 20th day of August, as provided in the Acts.
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. ATKINSON,) Londonderry, N.The last day for receiving objections is the 20th day of August. The 21st is therefore the earliest day on which fail copies of the lists could be furnished to 939 the printers. The reply to the question is, therefore, in the negative.