§ MR. HAZLETON (Galway, N.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland on what date the grass lands on the estate of Captain Hugh Henry, in the union of Tuam, county Galway, were striped by the Estates Commissioners; on what date were the names of the new proprietors with particulars of the land sold to them sent to the Commissioner of Valuation; and why the revisor has not yet visited the estate for the purpose of revising the valuations.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Estates Commissioners inform me that they placed the purchasing tenants in occupation of the untenanted land in this case in November, 1905. In June following the secretary of the county council, with whom the initiative for revision of valuation rests under the Valuation Acts, included certain of the townlands in the annual list of tenements and hereditaments requiring revision which he furnishes to the Commissioner of Valuation, and the Commissioner, having obtained from the Land Commission particulars of the acreage of the allotments of the townlands in question, had the revision carried out at the earliest 340 date which was possible under the Valuation Acts.