§ MR. DELANYTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he will state upon what grounds the Irish Land Commission declined to approve of the sale of a farm of seventeen acres, held by Mr. John Walker, Towlerton (Edge Estate), Queen's County, the farm having been sold by public auction to Mrs. Dooge, also a tenant purchaser under the Land Commission, whose holding adjoins Walker's; and whether the Land Commission demanded a fine of £50 from the purchaser as a condition to their approving of the sale.
(Answered by Mr. Wyndham.) In this case an attempt was made to subdivide a holding purchased under the Purchase Acts while a portion of the purchase money remained unpaid. This cannot be done without the consent of the Land Commission, and that body exercised the powers conferred upon it by Section 30 of the Land Act of 1881, and declined to sanction the transaction unless a sum of £50 was paid by the purchaser to be applied to the reduction of the portion of the original loan still outstanding.