§ MR. GLENDINNING (Antrim, N.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland who are the present Commissioners of Charitable Donations and Bequests in Ireland, whose offices are at 2, Kildare Place, Dublin; and whether he can state the number of applications for advice under the Act for the past twelve months, the number of cases advised upon, and the ground upon which the Commissioners declined to advise in cases where advice was not given.
(Answered by Mr. Bryce.) The present Commissioners of Charitable Donations and Bequests in Ireland are:—The Hon. the Master of the Rolls, The Right Hon. the Lord Chief Baron, ex officio; His Honour Judge Carton, K.C.; The Right Hon. H. E. Chatterton; H. P. Goodbody, Esq.; The Right Hon. Mr. Justice Johnson; His Grace the Most Rev. W. J. Walsh, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin; C. Kennedy, Esq., J.P.; The Right Hon. Mr. Justice Ross; Very Rev. J. H. Bernard, D.D., Dean of St. Patricks; The Hon. Mr. Justice Fitzgerald; F. C. Pilkington, Esq., J.P., D.L.; The Most Rev. Dr. Donnelly, Bishop of Canea. The Commissioners inform me that during the past twelve months six applications were made to them for their opinion or advice under s. 2 of 30 and 31 Vic, c. 54. The Commissioners advised upon two of these cases; but, in the exercise of the discre-
† See Col., 370.1118 tion conferred upon them by the section quoted, they did not consider it expedient to give any opinion or advice in the remaining four cases.