COLONEL NOLANI beg to ask Mr. Attorney General if it is the practice of the Land Commission to ask tenants desirous of purchasing to permit of their sub-tenants purchasing at the same time, and if, for example, this was lately done at Arskeagh, barony of Clare, county Galway.
§ MR. ATKINSONWhen it is found that a substantial portion of the holding of a tenant applying for an advance under the Land Purchase Acts is sublet, the Commissioners, if the circumstances admit, usually stay the proceedings till it is ascertained whether arrangements can be made for division of the holding and a sale of the sublet portion by the landlord direct to the sub-tenant of the portion of the holding in his occupation, but the treatment of each case depends on the arrangements arrived at between the parties and the particular circumstances found to exist. The Land Commission have no coercive jurisdiction in the matter.