PROVINCES : ULSTER; LEINSTER; CONNAUGHT; MUNSTER; Advances/Defaults

PREAMBLE

IRISH LAND COMMISSION

PURCHASE OF LAND (IRELAND) ACT 1891

RETURN as required by section 33 of the PURCHASE OF LAND (IRELAND) ACT, 1891, and prepared in accordance with No.18 of the rules made by the Treasury on the 26th February 1892, pursuant of Section 34 of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881, and Section 27 of the Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act 1891 showing:-

a.      Returns of Advances under this Act, specifying, -

                                i.            The situation, size, rateable value, and rent (judicial or non-judicial) of each holding for the purchase of which an advance has been made;

                              ii.            The vendor and purchase thereof;

                            iii.            The amount of purchase money, advance, and guarantee deposit; and

                            iv.            Particulars of any order made under Section 19 of the Lane Law (Ireland) Act, 1881, as amended by this Act, in relation to such holding, and of the enforcement thereof.

b.      Returns specifying the like particulars as above mentioned, with respect to cases (if any) in which default has been made in the payment of purchase annuities, and specifying further the date of the advance, the amount of instalments paid, and in default respectively, the proceedings taken for the recovery of the instalments in default, and the amount of loss on the occasion of the sale of any holding.

c.        Returns specify:-

                                i.            The amount (if any) which has been temporarily advanced out of the Consolidated Fund, and the amount (if any) which has been paid out of the Guarantee Fund to the Land Purchase Account, or to the Consolidated Fund;

                              ii.            The amount which has been applied under this Act towards the cost of providing labourers’ cottages;

                            iii.            The presentments (if any) which have been made under this Act;

                            iv.            The regulations and decisions which have been made by the Lord Lieutenant with respect to the share of any county, local authority or person, in any fund or sum dealt with under this Act, and with respect to the proportion in which advances are to be made in a county as between holdings, the rent of which exceeds fifty pounds, and other holdings; and

                              v.            The amounts paid our of the purchaser’s insurance money under this Act, and the amounts paid out of the reserve fund, and repaid to such fund under this Act.

TREASURY CHAMBERS,

10^th August, 1904                                                       VICTOR C.W. CAVENDISH