§ (1) For the purposes of the Congested Districts Board (Ireland) Acts, as amended by this Act, each of the following administrative counties, that is to say, the counties of Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim, Roscommon, Mayo, Galway, Clare, and Kerry, shall be a congested districts county, and the four rural districts of Bantry, Castletown, Schull, and Skibbereen, in the county of Cork, shall together form one congested districts county.
§ (2) The council of the administrative county shall be the local authority of the congested districts county, except in the case of the congested districts county in the county of Cork.
§ (3) For the purposes of this Part of this Act there shall be a joint committee of the
2204§ councils of the rural districts of Bantry, Castletown, Schull, and Skibbereen, consisting of two persons chosen out of their body by each of the said councils, and that committee shall be the local authority of the congested districts county in the county of Cork.
§ (4) No electoral division shall, after the passing of this Act, be or form part of a congested districts county, unless it is included in a congested districts county constituted under this Section.
§ (5) The Local Government Board for Ireland may make rules regulating the election, meetings, and procedure of the said joint committee.
§ Question put, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill."
§ The Committee divided: Ayes, 226; Noes, 44.
2205| Division No. 521]. | AYES. | [9.36 p.m. |
| Abraham, W. (Cork, N. E.) | Berridge, T. H. D. | Burns. Rt. Hon. John |
| Abraham, William (Rhondda) | Bethell, T. R. (Essex, Maldon) | Carr-Gomm, H. W. |
| Ambrose, Robert | Birrell, Rt. Hon. Augustine | Causton, Rt. Hon Richard Knight |
| Armitage, R. | Boland, John | Cherry, Rt. Hon. R. R. |
| Baker, Joseph A. (Finsbury, E.) | Bowerman, C. W. | Clancy, John Joseph |
| Balfour, Robert (Lanark) | Brace, William | Cleland, J. W. |
| Baring, Godfrey (Isle of Wight) | Branch, James | Clough, William |
| Barlow, Sir John E. (Somerset) | Brigg, John | Collins, Stephen (Lambeth) |
| Barnes, G. N. | Brodie, H. C. | Collins, Sir Wm. J. (St. Pancras, W.) |
| Barran, Rowland Hirst | Brooke, Stopford | Cooper, G. J. |
| Barran, Sir John Nicholson | Brunner, J F. L. (Lancs., Leigh) | Corbett, A. Cameron (Glasgow) |
| Barry, E. (Cory, S.) | Bryce, J. Annan | Corbett, C. H. (Sussex, E. Grinstead) |
| Barry, Redmond J. (Tyrone, N.) | Buckmaster, Stanley O. | Craig, Herbert J. (Tynemouth) |
| Beauchamp, E. | Burke, E. Haviland- | Crean, Eugene |
| Crooks, William | Johnson, John (Gateshead) | Parker, James (Halifax) |
| Crosfield, A. H. | Johnson, W. (Nuneaton) | Partington, Oswald |
| Crossley, William J. | Jones, William (Carnarvonshire) | Pearce, Robert (Staffs, Leek) |
| Cullinan, J. | Jordan, Jeremiah | Pearce, William (Limehouse) |
| Curran, Peter Francis | Jowett, F. W. | Philips, John (Longford, S.) |
| Davies, Timothy (Fulham) | Joyce, Michael | Pickersgill, Edward Hare |
| Delany, William | Kavanagh, Walter M. | Ponsonby, Arthur A. W. H. |
| Devlin, Joseph | Keating, M. | Power, Patrick Joseph |
| Dillon, John | Kekewich, Sir George | Radford, G. H. |
| Duffy, William J | Kelley, George D. | Rea, Waiter Russell (Scarborough) |
| Duncan, C. (Barrow-in-Furness) | Kettle, Thomas Michael | Reddy, M. |
| Duncan, J. Hastings (York, Otley) | Kilbride, Denis | Redmond, John E. (Waterford) |
| Dunn, A. Edward (Camborne) | Lambert, George | Richards, T. F. (Wolverhampton, W.) |
| Edwards, Sir Francis (Radnor) | Lament, Norman | Roberts, Charles H. (Lincoln) |
| Elibank, Master of | Lardner, James Carrige Rushe | Robson, Sir William Snowdon |
| Esmonde, Sir Thomas | Law, Hugh A. (Donegal, W.) | Roche, Augustine (Cork) |
| Essex, R. W. | Lehmann, R. C. | Roche, John (Galway, East) |
| Esslemont, George Birnie | Lewis, John Herbert | Rose, Sir Charles Day |
| Evans, Sir Samuel T. | Lundon, T. | Rowlands, J. |
| Everett, R. Lacey | Lupton, Arnold | Russell, Rt. Hon. T. W. |
| Farrell, James Patrick | Luttrell, Hugh Fownes | Samuel, Rt. Hon. H. L. (Cleveland) |
| Fenwick, Charles | Macdonald, J. R. (Leicester) | Samuel, S. M. (Whitechapel) |
| Ferens, T. R. | Macdonald, J. M. (Falkirk Burghs) | Scanlan, Thomas |
| Ffrench, Peter | Maclean, Donald | Scarisbrick, Sir T. T. L. |
| Field, William | Macnamara, Dr. Thomas J. | Scott, A. H. (Ashton-under-Lyne) |
| Flavin, Michael Joseph | MacNeill, John Gordon Swift | Sears, J. E. |
| Flynn, James Christopher | Macpherson, J. T. | Seddon, J. |
| Gilhooly, James | MacVeagh, Jeremiah (Down, S.) | Shackleton, David James |
| Gill, A. H. | MacVeigh, Charles (Donegal, E.) | Sheehan, Daniel Daniel |
| Ginnell, L. | M'Callum, John M. | Sheehy, David |
| Gladstone, Rt. Hon. Herbert John | M'Kean, John | Shipman, Dr. John G |
| Glendinning, R. G. | M'Laren, Sir C. B. (Leicester) | Smyth, Thomas F. (Leitrim, S.) |
| Clover, Thomas | M'Micking, Major G. | Stanley, Albert (Staffs, N.W.) |
| Goddard, Sir Daniel Ford | Mallet, Charles E. | Steadman, W. C. |
| Gooch, George Peabody (Bath) | Marnham, F. J. | Stewart, Halley (Greenock) |
| Gulland, John W. | Massie, J. | Stewart-Smith, D. (Kendal) |
| Hancock, J. G. | Meehan, Francis E. (Leitrim, N.) | Strauss, E. A. (Abingdon) |
| Harcourt, Robert V. (Montrose) | Meehan, Patrick A. (Queen's Co.) | Summerbell, T. |
| Harmsworth, R. L. (Caithness-sh.) | Molteno, Percy Alport | Taylor, John W. (Durham) |
| Harrington, Timothy | Mooney, J. J. | Thomas, Sir A. (Glamorgan, E.) |
| Hart-Davies, T. | Morrell, Philip | Thomasson, Franklin |
| Harvey, W. E. (Derbyshire, N.E.) | Morton, Alpheus Cleophas | Thorne, William (West Ham) |
| Haslam, James (Derbyshire) | Muldoon, John | Ure, Rt. Hon. Alexander |
| Hayden, John Patrick | Murnaghan, George | Ward, John (Stoke-upon-Trent) |
| Hazleton, Richard | Murphy, John (Kerry, East) | Ward, W. Dudley (Southampton) |
| Healy, Maurice (Cork) | Nannetti, Joseph P. | Wardle, George J. |
| Healy, Timothy Michael | Napier, T. B. | Waring, Walter |
| Hemmerde, Edward George | Nicholls, George | Watt, Henry A. |
| Henderson, Arthur (Durham) | Nolan, Joseph | White, Sir Luke (York, E.R.) |
| Henderson, J. McD. (Aberdeen, W.) | Norman, Sir Henry | Whitehead, Rowland |
| Henry, Charles S. | Nugent, Sir Waiter Richard | Wiles, Thomas |
| Herbert, Col. Sir Ivor (Mon. S.) | O'Brien, K. (Tipperary, Mid) | Wilkie, Alexander |
| Hobart, Sir Robert | O'Brien, Patrick (Kilkenny) | Wilson, Henry J. (York, W. R.) |
| Hodge, John | O'Connor John (Kildare, N.) | Wilson, John (Durham, Mid) |
| Hogan, Michael | O'Donnell, John (Mayo, S.) | Wilson, W. T. (Westhoughton) |
| Hooper, A. G. | O'Donnell, T. (Kerry, W.) | Winfrey, R. |
| Horniman, Emslie John | O'Dowd, John | Young Samuel |
| Howard, Hon. Geoffrey | O'Grady, J. | Yoxall, Sir James Henry |
| Hudson, Walter | O'Kelly, Conor (Mayo, N.) | |
| Hyde, Clarendon G. | O'Kelly, James (Roscommon, N.) | |
| Jackson, R. S. | O'Malley, William | TELLERS FOR THE AYES.—Captain Norton and Mr. Fuller. |
| Jardine, Sir J. | O'Snaughnessy, P. J. | |
| Jenkins, J. | O'Shee, James John | |
| NOES. | ||
| Acland-Hood, Rt. Hon. Sir Alex. F. | Craig, Charles Curtis (Antrim, S.) | MacCaw, Wm. J. MacGeagh |
| Ashley, W. W. | Doughty, Sir George | Magnus, Sir Philip |
| Banbury, Sir Frederick George | Fetherstonhaugh, Godfrey | Moore, William |
| Baring, Captain Hon. G. (Winchester) | Fletcher, J. S | Powell, Sir Francis Sharp |
| Barrie, H. T. (Londonderry, N.) | Forster, Henry William | Roberts, S. (Sheffield, Ecclesall) |
| Beach, Hon. Michael Hugh Hicks | Gordon, J. | Scott, Sir S. (Marylebone, W.) |
| Bull, Sir William James | Gretton, John | Sloan, Thomas Henry |
| Butcher, Samuel Henry | Guinness, Hon. W. E. (B. S. Edm'd.) | Smith, Abel H. (Hertford, East) |
| Campbell, Rt. Hon. J. H. M. | Haddock, George B. | Thomson, W. Mitchell- (Lanark) |
| Carlile, E. Hildred | Hamilton, Marquess of | Take, Sir John Batty |
| Carson, Rt. Hon. Sir Edward H. | Harrison 3roadley, H. B. | Valentia, Viscount |
| Castlereagh, Viscount | Hill, Sir Clement | Wyndham, Rt. Hon. George |
| Clark, Gorge Smith | Kerry, Earl of | |
| Clive, Percy Archer | Lockwood, Rt. Hon. Lt.-Col. A. R. | TELLERS FOR THE NOES.—Lord Balcarres and Lord E. Talbot. |
| Cochrane, Hon. Thomas H. A. E. | Long, Rt. Hon. Walter (Dublin, S.) | |
| Corbett, T. L. (Down, North) | Lonsdale, John Brownlee |