§ MR. LONSDALE (Armagh. Mid.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland under what statutory authority was the extra force of police from adjoining counties employed in the county of Armagh, the cost of which is now in dispute; under what authority was the corresponding force, whose cost has been remitted, employed in the county of Sligo; was no claim made upon the county of Sligo for the cost of the police from adjoining counties as distinguished from the Reserve; and, if not, can he explain why this was not done.
(Answered by Mr. Wyndham.) The detachments drafted into Armagh are charged for under the 27th Section of the 6 Will. 4, c. 13, and the 6th Section of the 11 and 12 Vic. c. 72. In the case of Sligo, the force in respect in which the claim was made was a force originally ordered from the Reserve, which is constituted under the authority of the 2 and 3 Vic, c. 75, and the 9 and 10 Vic, c. 97. For the reasons, however, explained by me on Thursday last†, the claim in the Sligo case was not legally admissible, and was withdrawn. There was no power so to transform the latter claim as to recover the expenses in the manner applicable in the Armagh case.