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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland,
[NOVEMBER, 1912
County Dublin, County Kilkenny, Queen's
County, King's County, County Meath,
County Westmeath, County Louth, County
Longford, County Wicklow, County Kildare,
County Wexford, County Carlow.
Connaught (at which the Right Hon. Mr.
Justice Kenny will preside).—The Winter
Assizes
for Connaught will be held at
Limerick for the County Leitrim, County
Galway, County Mayo, County Roscommon,
County Sligo, and the City and County of
Limerick.
Irish Land Purchase,
THE following has appeared in the Parlia
mentary papers :—
Q. Mr. Lardner.—To ask the Chief Secretary
to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, if he
will state the total amounts paid in
Ireland for
land under each of
the
respective Land Purchase Acts,
the
Amount of the purchase money of land
agreed to be purchased under recent
purchase Acts,
and
for which
the
purchase money has not yet been paid,
showing whether these estates are to be
paid for with cash, stock, or part cash
and part stock ;
and will he state the
sum estimated to be necessary to com
plete land purchase in Ireland.
[4/7;
November,
1912.]
A.
Mr. Birrell.—
The amounts advanced for
land purchase under the Irish Land
Purchase Acts up to the 31st March,
1912, were as follows :—
Act of 1870
Act of 1881
Act of 1885
Acts of 1891-6
Act of 1903
Act of 1909
-
518,933
240,801
9,992,536
13,146,892
49,128,508
1,488,039
Total
... 74,515,709
This figure does not include advances
amounting to £3,588,829 made out of the
Land
Purchase Fund
pursuant
to'
Section 16 of The Labourers Act, 1906,
and is also exclusive of payments in cash
amounting to £1,358,898 made by tenant
purchasers
in part payment of
the
purchase money of their holdings.
The amounts applied for but not
advanced on
the 31st March,
1912,
were :—
£
Act of 1903
... 35,556,355
Act of 1909
...
2,609,533
Total
38,165,888
and in addition the Congested Districts
Board were
in negotiation
for
the
purchase of
lands
in
the congested
districts
counties
of
an
estimated'
purchase money of 4| millions, in respect
of which agreements had not been
entered into on that date.
The purchase money under the Act of
1909 is payable in 3 per cent. Guaranteed
Land Stock equal in nominal amount to
the sum to be advanced, while in the case
of pending sales under the Act of 1903
the purchase money is payable in cash
as regards £27,415,861, and as regards
the balance vendors elected to accept
payment either wholly or partly in
Guaranteed 2| per cent. Stock
in
accordance with Section 3 (2) of the Act
of 1909 for their estates, representing a
purchase money of (a) £6,632,244, (b)
£1,508,250, in (a) half stock half cash,
and (b) wholly in stock. Parliamentary
Paper Cd. 6130 of this year gives the
most recent estimate prepared as regards
the information asked for in the con
cluding portion of the Question.
[Uh
November,
1912.]
New Solicitors.
ADMISSIONS DURING AUGUST, SEPTEMBER,
AND OCTOBER, 1912.
Nnme
Srrved Apprenticeship to
Hastings, John Lawrence
Joseph I. Donaghy, Bel-
Rentoul
fast
Herron, James
... R. A. E. Evans, Ballyna-
hinch
Horne, Francis Junius ...
Joseph Carroll, Newry,
and
Edwin Harris,
Newry
Martin, George
...
John Macka)', Dundalk,
and John V.
Fahv,
Dublin
O'Connor, Francis Joseph T. G. Quirke, Dublin
Rutherford, Samuel
F. G. McKeever,Drogheda
George
Smith, John Joseph
...
E. I. Thornton, Waterford
Tarrant, Samuel
...
John Tarrant, Sligo, and
M. J. Howley, Sligo