§ MR. O'DOWDTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can state the number of estates sold to tenants in the county of Sligo, and sanctioned by the Estates Commissioners, from the coming into operation of the Act of 1903 to the date of the last Return, the number sold by private treaty, and of those sold through the Estates Commission, with the average number of years' purchase given in each case respectively.
(Answered by Mr. Bryce.) The Estates Commissioners inform me that since the commencement of the Act they have made advances in the case of fourteen estates in Sligo sold direct by landlords to tenants, the average number of years' purchase of the tenanted land being 23–6. In the same period four estates in county Sligo were purchased by and vested in the Estates Commissioners, the average number of years' purchase of the tenanted land being 21. The Commissioners have no information as to sales effected by private treaty.