§ MR. EDWARD BARRY (Cork County, S.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether Mr. Sampson Beamish, Kilmalorda, Timoleague, having entered into an agreement of sale with his tenants, has been unable to obtain the consent of the Estates Commissioners to grant him the benefit of the bonus in case a tenant named Buttimar was excluded from the area of sale; and, if so, will steps be taken to induce the Estates Commissioners to omit this farm, without prejudice to the interests of the selling landlord.
(Answered by Mr. Bryce.) I am informed by the Estates Commissioners that Mr. Beamish has lodged with them an originating application instituting proceedings for the sale of certain town-lands in the County Cork. As Mr. Beamish owns other tenanted townlands in the immediate neighbourhood, which he does not at present propose to sell, because he has not come to terms with the tenants, the Commissioners, in the exercise of the discretion conferred on them by Section 98 (1) of the Irish Land Act, 1903, have written to his solicitors stating that they are unable to see their way to declare the lands at present proposed to be sold to be an estate for the purposes of the Act, to the exclusion of the lands which the tenants have not yet agreed to purchase.