§ MR. THOMAS F. SMYTHI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he can state how many estates in County Leitrim have been sold since the passing of the Land Act of 1903; and also how many of those sales have been completed and taken over by the Irish Land Commission.
§ MR. CHERRYThe Estates Commissioners inform me that up to the 8th instant proceedings for purchase had been instituted before them in respect of seventy-nine estates in County Leitrim, and advances had actually been 652 made in respect of eighteen of these estates.