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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
[DECEMBER, 1911
right;
the monetary or other assistance
which a tenant receives from Government;
the approximate number of tenants whose
applications to the Land Court for the fixing
of an equitable rent has not yet been settled,
and the reason of such delay ;
and as to the
extent to which these Acts have been super
seded by later legislation.
[28th November,
1911.]
A. MR. BIRRELL.—The Land Commission
inform me that under the Land Acts, 1885 to
1888, advances amounting to £9,992,536 were
made, for the purchase of 25,367 holdings, to
the tenants. The number of purchasers who
on the 1st November, 1911, were paying
annuities under these Acts was 25,365, and
the annual amount payable was £316,078
(the term " rental" is not properly applic-
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able)'. Advances under these Acts are no
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longer made. All the holdings sold uncler
these Acts are the property of the tenant-
purchaser, subject only to the repayment of
the advance and to any declared superior
charges on the holdings. Under the Acts
'•
1885-8, the advances were repayable in 49
years by an annuity of £4 per cent., but under I
Section 25 of the Act of 1896 the term of
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repayment may at
the option of
the
purchaser be extended on the decadal revision
system and the annuity reduced accordingly.
The term " tenant-right " is not applicable
to holdings purchased under the Land Acts.
A purchaser under the Acts of 1885-8 can
freely dispose of his holding subject only to
the payment of the annuity and the declared
charge (if any). Purchasers under the Acts
of 1885-8 received no monetary assistance
from the Government. On 31st October the
number of applications to fix fair rents
pending for hearing was 1,224, of which 1,000
were lodged during that month. These cases
are being disposed of without delay.
It
would not be possible within the limits of an
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Answer to a Parliamentary Question to state
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the extent to which the Acts of 1885-8 have
been
superseded
by
later
legislation.
Advances for purchase are now made under
the Act of 1903, as amended by that of 1909,
to which Acts I would refer the honourable
Baronet.
[28th November,
1911.]
Q. MR. VINCENT KENNEDY,—To ask the
Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland, if he will state when and what was
the name of the first estate which, sold under
the 1909
Irish Land Purchase Act, was
vested in the tenants ;
in how many cases of
sales of estates under this Act has
the
purchase money been already paid to the
vendor, giving the longest and shortest time
involved in vesting the holdings and paying
the purchase money to the vendors.
[28th
November,
1911.]
A. MR. BIRRELL.—The Estates Commis
sioners inform me that, excluding cases of
outstanding holdings on estates the subject
of proceedings for sale under the Act of 1903
at the passing of the Act of 1909, in respect
of which purchase agreements were not
lodged until after the 15th of September,
1909, and which were therefore financed
under the Act of 1909, the first estate sold
under the latter Act would appear to be that
of Lady Errington, in which the Commis
sioners advanced the purchase money and
vested the holdings in the purchasing tenants
on the 28th July, 1910. Up to the 23rd
instant, advances amounting to £889,346 have
been made under the Act of 1909 in respect of
3,072 holdings situate on 394 estates.
It is
not possible to give the information asked
for in the concluding portion of the Question,
but it may be stated that estates sold under
the Act of 1909 are dealt with irrespective of
estates agreed to be sold under the Act of
1903, and the purchase money is advanced as
soon as the lands have been inspected, and
the Commissioners' requirements as to title,
boundaries, and other matters are complied
with.
[28th November,
191 l.J
Results of Examinations.
AT the Preliminary Examination, held upon
the 5th and 6th days of October, the following
passed the examination, and their names are
arranged in order of merit :—
L John O'Hanrahan.
2. Herbert C. Scott.
3. John Gallery.
4. James G. E. Fitzgerald.
5. Claude C. Gotto.
6. Thomas S. Colbert.
7. John F. Carney.
8. Patrick J. Barry, junior.
9. Frederick C. Ellis.
John Forde passed the modified Prelim
inary Examination for which he had liberty to
present himself.