§ MR. GINNELLI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland will he arrange that in all Reports and Returns of transactions under the Land Act of 1903, when the land dealt with is untenanted, the Poor Law valuation shall be shown in lieu of yearly rent.
MR. BRYCEThe Land Commission inform me that untenanted land is, as a rule, purchased by the Estates Commissioners for division into parcels and distribution amongst the classes of persons referred to in Section 2 (1) of the Act of 1903. The tenement valuation is not always ascertainable even for the untenanted land so purchased as a whole, and when such land is divided into parcels it becomes necessary to have a revision of the tenement valuation to suit each parcel sold. This revision is not com-
† See (4) Debates, cliv., 379.882 pleted until after the untenanted land has been divided. It would not, therefore, be possible to show in the Returns the valuation in respect of the re-sales of such land in parcels.