§ MR. EDWARD BARRYI beg to ask Mr. Attorney -General for Ireland whether ho is aware that upon the transfer of land purchased under the Land Acts stamp duty is required to be paid not only on the amount of purchase money paid for the tenants' interest, but also on the outstanding amount registered against the land by the Land Commission; and seeing that upon the passage of the Land Act of 1903 the then Attorney-General stated that this practice would not be continued under the now Act, whether steps will be taken to relieve tenant farmers of this double charge on the sale and transfer of their lands.
§ MR. McKENNAI must refer the hon. Member to the Answer which I gave to the hon. Member for the West Division of Waterford on March 28th last. ‡I have also answered two unstarred Questions on the subject. I can find no trace of the promise referred to in the last part of the Question.
§ ‡See (4) Debates, cliv., 1288.