[99]. A copy of the order is appended to the 2nd Annual Report.
[100]. Clauses to this effect had been inserted in the original bill, but were withdrawn, as has been before stated. Ante, p. [195].
[101]. The money expended on this occasion amounted to 5,441l. See ‘The Irish Crisis,’ by Sir Charles Trevelyan, p. 18.
[103]. Then secretary for Ireland.
[104]. The gentlemen to whom this very important duty was confided were Mr. Phelan who had been specially appointed with a view to this object, and Dr. Corr afterwards temporarily employed for the like purpose; and to them was joined the assistant-commissioner in charge of the district within which the particular inquiry took place.