§ MR. MOOREI beg to ask the President of the Board of Agriculture whether he can state the amount received by the Ordnance Survey Department in Ireland in respect of lands surveyed by them for the purposes of proceedings in the Land Judge's Court during the year ending 1900–1901, how many estates were so surveyed in the same period, in how many cases did they act for the vendors of lands being sold through the Land Commission, are the staff employed in survey work in receipt of their ordinary Royal Engineers pay, and to what credit is the amount received by them for survey work carried; and, as this survey is carried out by the officials of one State department under the control of a second to meet the requirements of a third, will he consider if the services can be rendered at their actual cost to the State.
§ *MR. HANBURYThe amount received for work in connection with the Land Judge's Court was £3,555; the number of estates surveyed as mentioned was seventy-two; the number of estates surveyed for the Purchase Department of the Land Commission was nineteen (at a cost of £832). These sums are credited to the Appropriation-in-Aid. No Royal Engineers are employed on these surveys. The work is charged for at cost price.