CAPTAIN CRAIGI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if his attention has been drawn to a resolution of the Ballintubber branch of the United Irish League, passed 23rd March last, protesting against the importation by the Congested Districts Board and the Estates Commissioners of migrant tenants from adjoining districts into their parish, and pledging themselves to rout these migrants from their midst; and if it is intended to give land in this parish to tenants from outside and to afford them adequate protection when brought in.
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. BIRRELL,) Bristol, N.The Congested Districts Board and the Estates Commissioners both inform me that they have no knowledge of the resolution referred to in the Question, and neither of these bodies have yet acquired land in the parish of Ballintubber. It would be premature to say what the intentions of the Board and the Commissioners may be as to the distribution of the lands, if any, which they may hereafter acquire in that parish.