MR. C. MACVEIGHI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been called to the case of Joseph James Savers, of Magheracorn, near Convoy, East Donegal, on the estate of Alexander Boyle, and another, which was sold to the tenants before the Act of 1903, whether he is aware that Sayers, owing to arrears of rent, was unable to buy with the other tenants, but, after the Act of 1903, he was in a position to purchase and signed and lodged an agreement before the sale to the other tenants was completed; whether he can say why the Commissioners refuse to include 477 Sayers' holding in the sale, of the estate to the tenants; and whether, in view of the landlord's title having been fully investigated, and Sayers by settling with him having brought himself within the scope of the Land Acts, he will ask, if the Commissioners do not include him in the original sale, that they will declare his holding a separate estate and allow the sale to be completed.
§ MR. BIRRELLProceedings for sale in this case were instituted under the Land Purchase Acts prior to 1903, and the agreement signed by Sayers to purchase his holding for £653 was refused by the Land Commission in 1899, on the ground of insufficient security. Sayers subsequently agreed with his landlord to purchase the holding for £660 under the Irish Land Act, 1903, but the Estates Commissioners refused to declare the holding to be a separate estate.