§ 48. Mr. LUNDONasked how many resident magistrates it is proposed to appoint under the Coercion Act; and what cases it is intended to bring before them?
Mr. SAMUELNo power to appoint resident magistrates is given by the Criminal Law Procedure (Ireland) Act, 1887, but two resident magistrates have been declared to be persons of the sufficiency of whose legal knowledge the Lord Lieutenant is satisfied within the meaning of Sub-section (6) of Section 11 of that Act. The cases which it is at present proposed to have tried under the Act are those of not and unlawful assembly in connection with last month's cattle-driving operations, in which seventeen policemen were injured in the discharge of their duty.