§ MR. MORRIS (Kilkenny, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he can now state how many sales to tenants under the 40th section of the late Land Act have taken place; and whether the Government will take stops to facilitate such sales.
§ MR. G. W. BALFOURAdvances amounting to £269,334 were made by the Laud Commission down to the end of March last, enabling 945 tenants upon sixty-two estates to purchase their holdings under the provisions of the 40th section of the Land Act of 1896. Proceedings for sale under the same enactment were pending, at the date mentioned, on some thirty-two other estates.