THE EARL OF LEITRIMasked Her Majesty's Government, How the pay of the police and the rent or other expenses of the Police Station recently appointed at Cloonmorris in the county of Leitrim, and bordering on the county of Longford, are to be charged: If the amount is to be paid out of the Consolidated Fund or by the counties of Longford and Leitrim equally, or either of those counties wholly or in part, or by the district to which it has been found necessary to appoint additional police; or if any part of the expense is to be repaid by any particular individual: Also, if it is the intention of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to proclaim the district to which the additional police have been recently appointed, either under the provisions of the 6 & 7 Will. IV. c. 13, or under the provisions of "The Crime and Outrage (Ireland) Act," so that the district where recent outrages have rendered it necessary to appoint additional police shall be made to pay the expenses necessary for the due preservation of the peace, in accordance with the Intention of the Legislature?
§ EARL GRANVILLEbegged to state, in answer to the noble Earl's questions, that no charge would be thrown either on the district, the county, or any individual in 543 consequenee of the police-station recently appointed at Cloonmorris. The police force there was composed of men some from one district, some from another. No additional appointment had been made, and the only expense incurred was for the hire of accommodation for the police, which would be charged to the Consolidated Fund. "With reference to the state of crime in the barony, it appeared, so far as could be made out on investigation, that the murder which had taken place was not of an agrarian character, having been committed by a navy who had been discharged by one of the railway contractors in the neighbourhood. It was satisfactory to know that the police reports received gave very satisfactory evidence of the diminution of crime in that part of the country.