§ COLONEL NOLAN (Galway, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if the new Article 91 issued by the Local Government Board requires that poor rate collectors shall lodge each half year the whole amount included in their warrant, whether collected or not, before any poundage can be paid to them, if the Grand Jury of county Galway acted for a century on the opposite system, and paid poundage on the amount actually collected, and if the Galway County Council has hitherto found its rate collections satisfactory when paying poundage on the amount collected, and if the Local Government Board has stated that it is so thoroughly acquainted with the conditions prevailing in Galway that it considers itself justified in upsetting the system adopted by the county council.
§ MR. WYNDHAMBefore the issue of the recent Order, twenty-eight out of thirty-three county councils in Ireland had voluntarily adopted the system prescribed by Article 91 of the Order, on the ground that it was attended with much better results than the system prevailing in the remaining five counties. With a view to uniformity and to efficiency the 616 Board embodied in its Order the procedure adopted by the majority of the county councils.