§ Considered in Committee.
§ (In the Committee.)
§ [MR. J. W. LOWTHER (Cumberland, Penrith) in the Chair.]
§ Resolved, That, for carrying out the provisions of any Act of the present session to amend the law relating to the occupation and ownership of land in Ireland, it is expedient—
- (a) To authorise the creation of capital stock for raising money required for the Irish Land Purchase Fund and the Land Purchase Aid Fund, and to authorise the National Debt Commissioners to borrow and lend money for the purposes aforesaid, and to charge on the Consolidated Fund the payment of the dividends on such stock so far as not paid out of the income of the Irish Land Purchase Fund, and to authorise the payment out of money
957 to be provided by Parliament of sums sufficient to pay the dividends and sinking fund required for the Land Purchase Aid Fund. - (b) To authorise the payment out of money to be provided by Parliament of the salaries of the Estates Commissioners, the Public Trustee, and of officers and persons employed by them, and of certain expenses of the Land Commission; and
- (c) To authorise the payment out of the Consolidated Fund of superannuation allowances to certain Land Commissioners.—(Mr. Wyndham.)
§ Resolution to be reported to-morrow.