§ MR. DALYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that, at a special meeting of the county council of Monaghan, it was resolved that deputies should be appointed to the assistant county surveyors, by which the duties of the assistant county surveyors would not be increased from the time of the grand jury, whether he can state if the county council of Monaghan appoint deputies to the assistant county surveyors, the Local Government Board will allow the salaries to remain at £80 per annum, as was paid to the assistant county surveyors during the time of the grand jury.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThe hon. Member has sent me a copy of a resolution to the effect stated in the first paragraph. The question whether the county council is 295 legally empowered to appoint deputies to assistant surveyors, otherwise than in cases of illness, is one upon which I am not prepared to express an opinion without a fuller opportunity of examining the authorities. Perhaps the hon. Member will postpone the question until Thursday next. There are words in the Act which might be held to support the hon. Member's contention.