Royal Commission on Congestion in Ireland.
ROYAL COMMISSION ON CONGESTION IN IRELAND ------------ APPENDIX TO THE S I X T H R E P O R T ----------- MINUTES OF EVIDENCE (TAKEN IN COUNTY SLIGO AND COUNTY LEITRIM 17th TO 27th APRIL, 1907), AND DOCUMENTS RELATING THERETO -------------------------------------------------------------- Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of His Majesty --------------------------------------------------------------- DUBLIN PRINTED FOR HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE, BY ALEXANDER THOM & CO.(LIMITED), ABBEY STREET --------------- And to be purchased, either directly or through any Bookseller, from E. Ponsonby, 116 Grafton-street, Dublin; or WYMAN and SONS, Limited, Fetter-lane, E.C., and 32, Abingdon-street, Westminster, S.W.; or OLIVER and BOYD, Edinburgh. ------------------- 1907 [Cd.3748] Price 3s. 7d. ROYAL COMMISSION ON CONGESTION IN IRELAND ----------------------------------- LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION The Right Hon. The EARL OF DUDLEY, G.C.V.O.(Chairman). The Right Hon. Sir A.P. MACDONNELL, G.C.S.I. The Right Hon. Sir JOHN C.R. COLOMB, K.C.M.G. The Right Hon. Sir FRANCIS MOWATT, G.C.B. The Most Rev. PATRICK O'DONNELL,D.D. Lord Bishop of Raphoe. JOHN ANNAN BRYCE Esq., M.P. WALTER KAVANAGH, Esq., D.L. CONOR O'KELLY, Esq., M.P. ANGUS SUTHERLAND, Esq., Chairman of the Fishery Board for Scotland Secretary - WALTER CALLAN, Esq. ------------------------------------- TERMS OF REFERENCE To enquire into and report upon the operations of the Acts dealing with Congestion in Ireland, the working of the Congested Districts Board, and the Land Commission under these Acts, and the relations of the Board with the Land Commission and the department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction; what areas (if any) outside the districts now scheduled as congested require to be dealt with as congested; what lands are most conveniently situated for the relief of congestion; what changes in law or administration are needed for dealing with the problem of congestion as a whole, for facilitating the migration of surplus population from congested areas to other lands, and generally for bettering the condition of the people inhabiting congested areas. Apr [April?] 17 1907 Witness Mr. Henry Brennan questioned by Sir Francis Mowatt: 27637 Now, I do not see how we can ever hope - and I Trust in God we will - to stop emigration if something is not done in like manner or something to that effect, in settling the people at home. And I find in a question of Mr. M'Veagh [McVeigh?] in the House of Commons about the state of the country that the population is dwindling away. It has gone down from 8« million to 4ÂClose