§ Mr. THOMAS F. SMYTHasked the Chief Secretary if he can state if the Congested Districts Board will purchase the Ruthven estate, situate in Mohill rural district, county Leitrim, with a view of selling the same to the tenants, as they sent a memorial to the Board some time ago asking that the estate might be purchased and sold to them?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe memorial of the tenants on this estate has been received, and is, with several hundred similar memorials, under the consideration of the Congested Districts Board, who are not yet in a position to give it a definite answer.