§ Mr. VINCENT KENNEDYasked the Attorney-General for Ireland if he has seen a memorandum by Sir Charles E. Barton, Commissioner of Valuations, interpreting the results of the decisions in the cases of the London and Northwestern Railway Company v. Llandudno Improvement Commissioners, and Williams (Liverpool) v. London and Northwestern Railway Company, as follows: liable for full rates, Stationmaster's house, goods office, tank-house, and tank; liable only for to one - fourth rates goods store, engine-shed, signals, goods platform, approach, and siding; will he say if the cities of Belfast and Dublin have acquiesced in the new rating; whether this would in any way bind provincial urban districts; and what are the dates of the respective judgments referred to?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEI am informed that at the request of some of the railway companies552W provisional certificates interpreting the decisions referred to were issued by the Commissioner of Valuation in respect of certain statements. These were sent out for the purpose of enabling settlements to be made between the railway companies and the rating bodies. The certificates had no binding power. I understand that settlements have been come to in Dublin and Belfast. The dates of the respective judgments were 1897 and 1899.