§ MR. GINNELL (Westmeath, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland will the Estates Commissioners take advantage of the sale of an estate, comprising the site of a fair or market at which a toll or other charge is levied by the landlord upon people transacting business, either to enfranchise the fair or market or to have the amount of the charge applied to the improvement of the place and the relief of local taxation.
THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. BRYCE, Aberdeen, S.)The Estates Commissioners inform me that up to the present they have not purchased the site of any fair or market at which a toll is levied by the landlord. In any event, they are not aware of any provision in the Act of 1903, or any other Act, which would enable them to enfranchise a fair or market on any estate 944 which they might purchase, or to apply the amount of the charges to the improvement of the locality and the relief of local taxation.