§ MR. O'SHEE (Waterford, W.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord- 104 Lieutenant of Ireland whether the function of allocating the districts in which the Legal and Lay Assistant Commissioners of the Irish Land Commission shall act has been performed or is now performed by one or more of the Chief Commissioners; if so, by which of them; and whether the same Commissioner or Commissioners determine which on the hearing of appeals to the Chief Commission, or as Inspectors under the Estates Commissioners.
MR. BRYCEThe allocation of the several Assistant Commissioners to the special duties upon which they are engaged receives the consideration of all the members of the Land Commission. The duty of assigning the Assistant Commissioners engaged in fixing judicial rents to their particular districts devolves upon one of the Judicial Commissioners, who may for the time being be dealing with the matter. The list of Lay Assessors was framed by the Judicial Commissioners with the approval of the Lord-Lieutenant and the Treasury, in accordance with the provisions of the General Orders made under the Act of 1903. In land purchase cases, the Land Commission, or the Estates Commissioners, as the case may be, select the Inspectors for the duty of visiting and reporting on the holdings concerned.