§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLI beg to ask Mr. Attorney General for Ireland whether he is aware that the person about to be appointed to the office of coroner in Tipperary will be a coroner for the entire county of Tipperary, and entitled to act in the south riding of that county for the adjoining district, that the payment of the salary of the coroner is a charge upon the entire county, and that the Lord Chancellor of Ireland has recently issued his writ for the election of a coroner in the north riding of Tipperary by the County Council of that riding; and seeing that the County Council of the south riding of the county is entitled to take part in the two elections, whether instructions to this effect will be given to the high sheriff and North and South Riding County Councils: and, having regard to the fact that intimation cannot now be given of a vacancy in the office of coroner created by death, the twentieth sections of the Act 9 and 10 Vic, cap. 37, having been repealed by the Local Government Act, will he state with whom the responsibility rests of giving official notice of the vacancy to the County Council, and will he see that the person elected to the office of coroner is possessed of the necessary legal qualifications.
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. ATKINSON,) Londonderry, N.The Question contained in the first paragraph is not free from difficulty, but in the opinion of the Irish Law Officers the Writ issued by the Lord Chancellor, is having regard to the provisions of the 14th, 68th, and 69th Sections of the Local Government Act and the Orders made thereunder, in proper form. The Council of the 549 North Riding will elect and pay the coroner and assign to him a district within the North Riding. The Sheriff has nothing to do with the election, and the County Council have had full notice of the Order removing the coroner. It is the duty of the County Council to see that the person elected is duly qualified.
§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLWith whom does the responsibility rest of giving the County Councils notice?
§ MR. ATKINSONThey had before them the notice of the Order removing the coroner, and also the writ ordering the appointment of his successor.