§ ME. KETTLE (Tyrone, E.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can state the total number of cases in which legal proceedings have been instituted for the recovery of annuities due by tenant purchasers under the Irish Land Purchase Act of 1903.
§ MR. BIRRELLIn March last the Land Commission directed proceedings to be taken for the recovery of land purchase annuities due on the preceding 1st December in 1,074 cases which were 871 in arrear out of a total of 38,963. By the 1st of the present month payment had been made in 769 of these cases, leaving 305 still in arrear.