§ MR. WILLIAM ABRAHAM () Cork County. N.E.To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he would now consider the desirability of dividing Mitchelstown and Kildorrery into separate petty sessions districts, as Mr. Browne, clerk to the magistrates, has resigned, and such a division would remove the inconvenience at present experienced by the inhabitants of the Kildorrery district.
(Answered by Mr. Wyndham.) The reported resignation of the clerk of petty sessions has not been received. In the event of a vacancy it will be competent to the magistrates to elect different
†See (4) Debates, cxxxi., 573.608 persons to the position of clerk in each district.