Mr. CHARLES MacVEIGHasked the Chief Secretary whether he is aware that Mr. Douglas, clerk of the petty sessions, Dungiven, county Derry, lives over three miles distant from the court in which he discharges his duties, in violation of the rule made by the Lord Lieutenant under 21 and 22 Vic, c. 100, s. 29, and published on 3rd December, 1903; and whether he will take steps to compel the clerk to live and be accessible within the limit specified in the rule?
§ Mr. BIRRELLPermission to live three miles from Dungiven was granted to this clerk on special conditions, one of which was that he should attend at Dungiven Courthouse on three days in each week for the transaction of petty sessions business. The question of this clerk's residence will be reconsidered at the end of six months.