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Letter from Henry Doran to Matthew Nathan, 14 April 1916

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<pb/>occupying tenant and middleman came to terms voluntarily
<lb/>as to the price which the middleman would accept, the
<lb/>Board would advance such portion of the price as they were
<lb/>advised the holding was security for, and that the balance
<lb/>should be found by the occupying tenant, to whom the Board
<lb/>would then sell the holding at the price which they paid
<lb/>Lord Ventry for the fee simple of it plus the Stock value
<lb/>of the advance made to the occupying tenant to enable him
<lb/>to purchase the middle interest. I further said that
<lb/>any of the occupying tenants who were able to come to terms
<lb/>provisionally with their middlemen would be informed of
<lb/>the sum the Board were prepared to advance, if they so
<lb/>requested.</p>

<p>The judicial Commissioner subsequently made a
<lb/>ruling that any holdings not in the occupation of the
<lb/>direct tenants would be regarded as intervening interests
<lb/>which should be either redeemed or excluded from sale.
<lb/>Under this ruling 38 holdings in the town of Killorglin
<lb/>held at rents amounting to £107 10 6 were excluded by
<lb/>the Land Commission from the Vesting Order, and the sum
<lb/>of £2,582, being the purchase price of these intervening
<lb/>interests, was deducted from the original offer of the estate.</p>

<p>The Board are advised that it would not be possible
<lb/>for them <add>now</add> to purchase these holdings <hi rend="underline">under the Land Purchase</hi>
<lb/><hi rend="underline">Acts</hi>, as they are non-agricultural holdings. Lord Ventry
<lb/>offered to sell to the tenant for cash, I understand, at
<lb/>the prices which the Board had placed on these holdings, but
<lb/>this price only included the purchase of the middlemen
<lb/>rental. The only way I can see in which the purchase
<lb/>can be effected is, if the occupiers can pay the middle&#x2014;
<lb/>men cash to buy out their interest, then they could<pb/>

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Letter from Henry Doran to Matthew Nathan, 14 April 1916

National Archives of Ireland

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