§ MR. P. A. MCHUGH (Sligo, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he has received a communication from the joint committee of management of the Sligo District Asylum for the Insane informing him that two evicted tenants, Catherine Mullen, of Knockadoo, and Catherine McDonagh, of Carhownagh, are now detained and supported in that institution as pauper lunatics; whether the farms from which these women were evicted are derelict; and whether the Estates Commissioners would be entitled and prepared to intervene, with the object of having the evicted farms handed over in trust to the representatives of the evicted tenants, so that these women may no longer be a charge upon the rates and may not lose their rights under the pro- 872 visions of the Land Act of 1903 in regard to evicted tenants.
§ MR. BIRRELLThe Estates Commissioners have received the resolution referred to, and a copy has also been sent to me. The Commissioners are of opinion that the suggestion contained in the Question is impracticable.