§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILL (Donegal, S.)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that the Commissioners of Income-Tax have given notice of their intention of sitting for the purpose of hearing appeals from the county of Donegal in the court-house at Strabane on the 13th instant, and that the proposed arrangement will entail on appellants resident in the county of Donegal the expense, inconvenience, and loss of time incident to a long journey from their residences or the abandonment; and, having regard to the diffi-
† This Answer is in substitution for that published on Nov. 5th.1656 culties thus created of attempting to appeal, since the expense necessitated by so doing under these circumstances would be in many cases greater than the reductions in the sums assessed, for which the appeals are undertaken, an appellant being compelled to travel under the proposed arrangements from Glencolumbkille to Strabane, directions will be given that the Commissioners will attend at convenient centres in Donegal such as Stranorlar, Donegal Town, Ballyshannon, and Killybegs, where there are commodious courthouses, in order to facilitate appellants in bringing their claims before the Commissioners instead of obstructing them from so doing, which will be the result of the present arrangement if unmodified.
(Answered by Mr. Hobhouse.) Should it be found that appellants who have been summoned to attend at Strabane on the 13th instant have been prevented from doing so by reason of their living in parts of the County Donegal remote from that town, opportunity will be given for the subsequent consideration of their cases, provided the accounts called for by the Special Commissioners are supplied on or before the dates named in the precepts for accounts already issued.