/ OQ SELECT COMMITTEE ON FICTITIOUS VOTES, IRELAND. / IO: lane, and that the house you valued is not the house in question '— Yes • and • another thing that impresses it more deeply in my mind is, { hat if we had Valued Howells house we should have put down Howell; and the reason that Mr Bal- lard s name is to it is, I presume, that it was empty, and when there is no occupying tenant, we always put down the landlord. B 2349- Mr. Beamish.-] You do not know, in point of fact, that vou would have put down Howells name?— I have no question but that Howell's name would nave been put down. 2350. Mr. Serjeant Jackson.] Was the house which you valued in Ballard's- lane a better house, and a different description of house?— Yes ; and we valued it at 6 /. 2351. Mr. Beamish.] Do you know the house specially that you valued; can you describe what part of Ballard's- lane it was in?— I think I do recollect the house very well. I must allow that I might be mistaken, but I do not think I am. 2352. You speak to the best of your recollection, but you cannot speak posi- tively as to the fact ?— I cannot speak positively to having in my recollection at present the house that we valued ; but I can say positively, that if Howell's house was valued, which I do not think it was, there is not a question but we should have put down Howell's name. 2353- Supposing that you did not know the name of the man, from your know- ledge that the lane was the property of Mr. Ballard, you would have put down his name if you could not obtain the name of the occupier?— I knew the place so well that there is no doubt that if we valued Howell's house, we should have put down Howell's name. 2354. Mr. Serjeant Jackson.] How long has Howell been there?— Many years. 2354*. Mr. Beamish.] Were you aware, when you went round to value the houses in 1833, that Howell had registered in 1832 ?— No ; I never thought of it. 2355. Were you aware of it?— I was not. 2356. Mr. Serjeant Jackson.] But you are sure that this William Howell did reside in Ballard's- lane at the time you were there?— Yes. 2357. And you knew him for some years before that?— Almost all my life. 2358. Did you know that he resided there?— Yes. 2359. So that you are quite sure that the house would have been valued in the name of Howell, if in truth that was the house that you valued for the purposes of local taxation in 1833 ?— I am sure of it. 2360. And, therefore, though you cannot at this moment recall to your mind the precise situation of the house which you did value, you have premises enough in your mind to enable you to say that this house of Howell's was not the house that vou valued ?— It was not. 2361. Did you visit and value the house of Robert Hollowood, in Maypoie- road, since Christmas?— I did. 2362. What description of house is it?— The rooms are in such bad order that I think it is dangerous to live in it. 2363. What is the highest value of that house ?—£. 5. per annum. 2364. ( To Mr. Colburn.) Do you find that person upon the register ?— I find " Robert Hollowood, nailer, Mavpole- road, city of Cork; house at Maypole- road ; householder, 10 I; registered 20 th October 1832;" and I find that he voted in 1832 and 183,5. , , . . 2365. ( To Mr. Young.) In your judgment could that house have been of the value of 10 /., or anything- approaching to it, in 1832 ?— It could not. 2366. Mr. Beamish.] Were you in the house.— I was. 2367. And examined it?— Yes. # . 2368. Did you see all the premises connected with it?- The same kind of examination that I made of all the rest. 2369. You walked in, and you judged from the lower part of it what the ie> tof ^ 237o7~ Mr. S Serjeant Jackson.] And also from the exterior appearance; of^ the whole ?— Yes ; the exterior has a very dangerous appearance; the roof has such a very great hollow in it. T - r 2371. Is Maypole- road a very wealthy part of the towor- It i> not. 2372. ( To Mr. Lane.) Does he appear in the valuation P- JNo^ 2373. ( To Mr. Young.) Did you of Coppinger's- lane, since Christmas last r— I did. What do his premises consist of ?- A very small, pool How Mr. John Young. 22 February 1838. visk and value the house of Francis Johnson, 2374-