§ MR. TULLY (Leitrim, S.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he can state the number of convictions and the amount of the fines obtained against Mr. Joseph Scannell, tobacconist, Dartmouth, under the Lord's Day Observance Act of Charles II.; whether the police will be directed to enforce this Act against publicans as well as tobacconists; and. if not, when it is proposed to repeal it.
§ MR. AKERS DOUGLASI have no information which would enable me to answer the first part of this Question. As regards the latter part, it is not a 1122 matter in which I feel called upon to issue any directions such as are suggested, even if I had the power to do so, nor can I express any opinion as to the repeal of the Act in question.
§ MR. AKERS DOUGLASThe matter is one for the police.
§ MR. AKERS DOUGLASNot in this matter.