(2) The present clerk was appointed in May 1842, from which period to December this sum was received. (r) Established 10th February 1843.

(s) Estimated amount.

(t) The present clerk was appointed 19th May 1844.

(u) Exclusive of informations, recognizances, &c. &c., which would amount to 107. during the three successive years; and also of costs payable by offenders committed to gaol, which would amount to 4 l. per year for the same period.

(x) There is also a sum of about 15l. due to the clerk, being his fees on informations, convictions, and summonses, in cases at the prosecution of the police, which heretofore the clerk had authority to deduct from the fines received by him, but which have been withheld since August 1843.

(y) Estimated amount.

(z) Of this sum the petty sessions' clerk received but 1217. 6s.

(a) Of this sum the petty sessions' clerk received but 81l. 17 s. 9 d.; no fees on cases instituted by the police having been paid.

(b) Inclusive of 10l. 3s. 6d. for arms' registry, and other incidental fees.

(c) These amounts have been taken from the petty session books. There have been incidental charges for informations, loan fund warrants, &c. which do not appear on the books, and which might amount to 51. each year.

(d) The number of criminal and civil cases tried in each year was: 1842, 816; 1843, 682; 1844, 753; total, 2,251. The average fee per case therefore would be 9 d.

A STATEMENT of the Amount of CONSTABULARY FORCE in each County, County of a City, and County of a Town in Ireland, on 1 January 1845.-(Pursuant to Act of Parliament, 6 Will. IV. c. 13, s. 57.)

-No. 1.

CONSTABULARY OF IRELAND.

EFFECTIVE STRENGTH of the Force in Counties, Cities and Towns, on the 1st January 1845.