§ MR. DOLANTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that it is the practice of the agent on the G. S. Clements estate, Glenboy, county Leitrim, to have all applications for the fixing of fair rents transferred from the jurisdiction of the county court judge; and will he state by what authority the agent is thus enabled to prevent these applications being heard within any reasonable time.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Land Commission inform me that five out of six pending applications to fix judicial rents on the estate mentioned were transferred from the Civil Bill Court on 1127 the 6th March. The applications were transferred to the Land Commission on the application of the landlord made under the powers conferred by the provisions of Section 37, sub-section (4), of The Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881, no cause against such transfer having been shown by the tenants.