§ Mr. LUNDONasked whether it is the practice of the Land Commission to recover from the rates of any particular county annuities not paid to the Land Commission by parties who have got mansions and land from the Estates Commissioners who, for exceptional reasons, are not able to pay the annuities put on them?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe hon. Member presumably refers to the cases in which a demesne and other lands in his occupation have been re-sold to the owner of an estate pursuant to Section 3 of the Irish Land Act, 1903. In such a case, if the half-year of the annuity payable in respect of the advance made to the owner happened to be unpaid after the appointed day, the arrear would be included in the amount certified by the National Debt Commis-1442W sioners to the Treasury as chargeable to each county for the sums drawn from the Guarantee Fund in respect of purchasers' half-yearly payments in arrear, as provided by the Land Purchase Acts.