§ Mr. O'SHAUGHNESSYasked the Chief Secretary if he can say whether the Estates Commissioners will take any action to adjust the financial relations between a landlord and his tenants who signed agreements to purchase their holdings between 1st November, 1908, and 1st January, 1909, on the basis that the landlord was to get a lesser bonus than 12 per cent., and who increased the purchase price to make up for the loss in bonus?
§ Mr. CHERRYThe Estates Commissioners have no power to make any such adjustment as is suggested in the question.
§ Mr. O'SHAUGHNESSYWhat is the position of the tenant who is paying 7 per cent. more on his annuity in order to make up for the loss which it was understood would be caused the landlord by the reduction in the bonus, and will the Commissioners take some steps to see that, if the landlord is now getting 12 per cent. bonus up to 1st January, 1909, the tenants are not charged the extra amount which was to be paid?
§ Mr. CHERRYThe bonus to the landlord has nothing whatever to do with the annuity the tenant has to pay. He will have to pay whatever he agreed to pay.