§ MR. DOLANTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland by what authority John Crawford, of Lavagh, county Fermanagh, served notices on John Crawford, junior, of Derryvan, county Fermanagh, Samuel Rooney, of Kinglass, county Fermanagh, and Mrs. Crawford, of Mullaghgarrow, to give up the portions of bog in the townland of Mullaghgarrow which had been secured to them in their investment orders when they were purchasing their holdings under the Land Purchase Act in 1892; whether the Earl of Enniskillen sold these portions of bog to John Crawford, of Lavagh; and whether he will give instructions to the Land Commission to see that these people are secured in the rights which they acquired by their terms of purchase.
(Answered by Mr. Bryce.) The Land Commission inform me that they have no knowledge of the proceedings referred to in the Question. If the tenant purchasers consider that their rights have been invaded, it is open to them, if so advised, to seek redress by legal proceedings. The matter is not one in which the Land Commission can intervene.