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Rh have been so ruthlessly dealt with. Now the reductions of the holdings in Ireland between 1841 difficulty arises, when that is done, 'What is to be done with the tenants?' * * * "About a mile from the town there were about twelve persons to be disposed of. I saw the impossibility of satisfying them, and I proposed that they should cast lots for the land. They agreed to cast lots, upon condition that each man going out was to get £20, his lordship paying half, and the tenant who got the land paying the other. That was settled, and they got their money, and a good many went to America. * * * The whole of the expense of those tenants for those two years was £551. 13s 3d.' "

John Duke, Esq., M.D."Has the consolidation of farms been carried on to any extent in this district ? * * *—There has been an anxiety, on the part of the landlords, latterly to do so. They are doing it, where they can do it peaceably, to the satisfaction of the out-going tenant."

D. H. Kelly, Esq., Land Proprietor, Magistrate, and D.L."Has there been any consolidation of farms in the district? I am doing it in every way I can. I am getting the tenants wherever I can to buy adjoining land when it is vacant; but if you refer to consolidation by the ejectment of whole villages, in order to make large farms, there is nothing of the sort; but where there is a beggarman, and he is inclined to go away, or one man is inclined to buy of another, I have made both into one holding, and have always assisted the party by lending him money, and in every way I could."

"To what size have you thought it desirable to bring the farms? — If I could I should not like to have any thing under twenty acres; but I am content with ten, and put up with six."—''Dig. Dev. Com, p.'' 471.

Captain K. Lloyd, Land Proprietor, Agent, and Magistrate."Has there been any consolidation of farms, and to what