§ MR. LIDDELL (Down, W.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that the Land Commission receive and record notices of the sales by tenant purchasers of the holdings bought by them under the various Purchase of Land (Ireland) Acts; and what is the average rate of purchase which the Land Commission records show as being paid by new purchasers for holdings so acquired to the purchasing tenants.
(Answered by Mr. Bryce.) The ownership of all lands sold by means of an advance under the Land Purchase Acts is registered under The Local Registration of Title Act, 1891, and all subsequent transfers of such land, upon sale or otherwise, are also registered. The Land Commission inform me that it is only upon receipt of the amended land certificates issued by the Local Registration of Title Office that the changes of ownership on such transfers are recorded in the books of the Land Commission. As, however, these land certificates do not usually disclose the consideration money which
† See (4) Debates cxx., 545–6.1218 may be paid by new purchasers, the collection books do not afford the information asked for in the concluding part of the Question.