§ MR. F. MEEHAN (Leitrim, N.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the tenants on the estate of Sir Joslyn Gore Booth, Ballintullie, County Sligo, purchased their holdings at the rate of twenty-four and-a-half years' purchase; and whether it was on the understanding, at the time of sale, that all waste and untenanted lands on the estate would be divided among the holders of uneconomic holdings, and that the landlord was to keep the river-bed cleaned to prevent the flooding of the lands.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The advances applied for in the purchase agreements signed by the second-term and first-term tenants represented 24.2 and 22.4 years purchase, respectively of the judicial rents. No reference is made in the agreements to the other matters referred to in the Question, but the Estates Commissioners will have these matters inquired into when the estate is being dealt with.