§ Considered in Committee.
§ (IN THE COMMITTEE.)
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That, for carrying out the provisions of any Act of the present Session to amend the Law relating to the occupation and ownership of land in Ireland, it is expedient—
- (a) To authorise the creation of a new capital stock for raising any money required for the Irish Land Purchase Fund (including the Land Purchase Aid Fund), and the temporary borrowing of any such money by bills or bonds, and to charge on the Consolidated Fund in certain contingencies the payment of the dividends on the new stock, and the payment of the interest, and the repayment of the principal of any such bills or bonds;
- (b)To remove the limit on the total sums to be paid out of the Land Purchase Aid Fund;
- (c) To authorise the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament, in certain contingencies, of deficiencies that may arise on the Irish Land Purchase Fund and the Guarantee Fund, and to make provision for payment, out of moneys provided by Parliament, on the exhaustion of the Reserve Fund, or the Ireland Development Grant, of sums for purposes for which provision would otherwise have been made out of that fund or grant;
- (d) To authorise the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of an annual sum to the Congested Districts Board for Ireland and to the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland;
- (e) To authorise the National Debt Commissioners to make advances in certain cases to the Land Commission."—[Mr. Birrell.]
§ Resolution to be reported upon Monday next.
§ And, it being Half-past Five of the clock, Mr. Speaker adjourned the House without Question put, pursuant to Standing Order No. 3.
§ Adjourned at half after Five o'clock, till Monday next (12th July).