§ MR. CAREWI beg to ask Mr. Attorney General for Ireland whether his attention has been directed to the prosecutions at the last Carlow Petty Sessions for breaches of the sanitary laws, which were dismissed, although the offences complained of still continue; and whether he will take steps to have the sanitary laws enforced in these cases.
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. ATK INSON,) Londonderry, N.The prosecutions, which were instituted at the suit of the District Council, were dismissed without prejudice, owing, I believe, to some technical informality in the framing of the summons. Fresh proceedings are, I understand, about to be instituted. It is the duty of the local sanitary authority, not of the Crown, to enfore the sanitary laws in the district.