§ Mr. J. P. FARRELLasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether any inspection has yet been made of the Douglas estate in the townlands of Baun, Kilnashee, Cloonmacort, and Clonaugh, forty-nine tenants in which townlands have signed a protest against carrying out this sale, in consequence of the landlord having broken his agreement with them and deprived them thereby of their bog; and whether the undertaking which he 857 gave to have a full inquiry into this transaction by an inspector before passing the estate will be given effect to or, in the alternative, that the tenants who have been deprived of their bog will be restored to the portion they occupied before the sale as regards the bog of which they were deprived?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe purchase agreements for the sale of this estate were not lodged until October, 1908. It will be inspected in order of priority, but its turn has not yet come. Due inquiry will be made by the inspector when on the lands as to the allotment of the turbary.