The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-09-18 00:00:00

MR. PARNELL'S LAND BILL.
The following is the full text of Mr. Parnell's Lama
ill:

"TEMPORARY RELIEF (IRELAND 1886) BILL.
"A bill for the temporary relief of agricultural
tenants in Ireland, and for the admission of certain
leaseholders to the Land Act of 1881, and for other
purposes."
Whereas, having regard to the ereat depression in
the prices of agricultural produce since the greater
number of the judicial rents of tenants in Ireland
subject to the statutory conditions were taxed, it is
expedient to make temporary provision for the relief
in certain cases of the tenants Or Such holdings, and
to provide for the admission of certain leaseholders
to the benefits of the provisions of the Land Act of
1881:

-Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most excel-
lent Majesty, by and with the advice and assent of
the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons in
this present Parliment assembled and by the authority'
of the same as follows:

Clause I.—ln the case of any holding subject to
statutory conditions within the meaning of the Land
Law (Ireland) Act, 1881,Iwhere the statutory term was
fixed prior to Dec. il, 1884. If on the application of
the tenant of such holdings it is proved to the satis-
faction of the Irish Land Commission hereinafter
called the Court (a) That half the rent ordinarily
payable in the year 1886 in respect of such holding
and half of any antecedent arrears have been paid,
and (b) that the tenant is unable to discharge the
remainder of such rent or arrears without loss of his
holding or depreciation of the means necessary for
cultivation and stocking thereof, the Court may make
an order for such an abatement of the rent of such
holding as may seem to them just and expedient.
Such abatement shall apply to the rent ordinarily
payable in the year 1886 to antecedent arrears thereto,
if any, and to the rent which would have been payable
in the following year.
Clause 2. —The lessee of any holding who at the
expiration of any lease existing at the passing of the
Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881, would be deemed to
be a tenant of a present ordinary tenancy from year
to year at a rent, and, subject to the conditions of a
lease, shall from and after, the passing of this Act, and
notwithstanding that such letises liave not expired, be
deemed to be a tenant of a present tenancy at the
rent mentioned in such lease, and his holding shall be
subject to all the provisions of the said Act of 1831
with regard to present tenancies.
Provided that such lessee shall not be deemed to be
a present tenant—(a) where substantial consideration
has been given by such lessee for the said lease,
and such lessee objects to be deemed a present
tenant; (b) where such lessee is not the im-
mediate occupying tenant of such holding; (c) where
the holding is of such a character as to come under
any of the exceptions contained in the 58th section
of the Land Law (Irelan-1) Act, 188 L
Clause 3.—Where any proceedings for the recovery
of rent of a holding to which this Act applies, or for
the recovery of such holding for non-payment of
rent, have been taken before or after an application
under this Act in respect of such holding and if pend-
ing before such application is disposed of, the Court
before which such proceedings are pending shall, on
payment int court of one-half of the rent due, sus-
pend or postpone such proceedings until the applica-
tion under this Act has been disposed of.
The bill bears on the back the names of Mr. Par-
nell, Mr. Sexton, Mr. Dillon, Mr. T. P. O'Connor,
Mr. Mahony, and Mr. Pinkerton.