§ MR. CAREW (Meath, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland is he aware that on the 25th of March last the Royal Irish Constabulary were removed from Julianstown to Layton, County Meath, in consequence of the conditions of the barrack at Julianstown; and that, pending negotiations for the erections of a barrack at Layton, the local magistrates, acting under the influence of Colonel Pepper, who canvassed them personally, have made representations to the authorities to have the station transferred hack to Julianstown; and, seeing that the county inspector in ordering the removal to Layton had in view, in addition to the insanitary condition of the Julianstown barrack 909 the fact that Layton is the more convenient and central position for a police station, whether he will effect to this view by ordering the stations to be fixed at Layton.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThe Magistrates are unanimously of opinion that the police should be stationed at Julianstown. I am not aware that they were canvassed by Colonel Pepper, but they have been consulted by the police authorities. The Inspector General concurs that the men should be quartered at Julianstown, and it is now proposed to build a barrack there for their accommodation.