To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland when a purchaser owing a balance of annuities under one of the Purchase Acts prior to 1903 desires to sell his interest in a non-residential grass farm in a district in which it is much needed for distribution, are the Irish Land Commission willing, by a particular exercise of their present statutory powers, to sell the farm to the Estates Commissioners with the consent of the partial purchaser, who would then receive a bonus under the Land Act of 1903. (Answered by MR. Birrell.) In the circumstances stated in the Question

ߤ See(4) Debates, clxxiv, 795-6.