§ MR. LONSDALE () Armagh, Mid.To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland from what places the extra police were drafted into the county Sligo, the cost of which was recently remitted by His Excellency; and if he would also state from what places the extra police were "drafted into the county of Armagh, the costs of which are now in dispute.
(Answered by Mr. Wyndham.) In both cases the additional police were drafted into Sligo and Armagh, respectively, from other counties. In the former, however, the claim made upon the county council was in respect of a reserve force of Constabulary, and when it subsequently transpired that the additional men had not been drawn from the reserve which is located by statute at the depot in Dublin, the Government was advised that there was no legal power to recover the claim. In the case of the extra police drafted into Armagh, the circumstances were not the same. There the men were on ordinary detachment duty, employed under different statutory authority and the decision of the Government in the Sligo case is not applicable.