. ,46 Mr. D. Meagher. 3110 26 February 1838. MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE THE You have read the evidence of Mr. Young?— I merely scanned his evidence I did not read it. , , ,, " The following answer is given by Mr. Young to question 1515 : he says, « It is a very old house, in very bad repair ; there, •; barfly.. whole: pane of glass of in the house" Now are'you prepared, from your recollection of the state of that house, to contradict the evidence of Mr. Young, or to affirm it ?— I am prepared to say that the man pays nine guineas per annum for it. 3112. Are you prepared to contradict that statement; that of Mr. Young f— No, I am not. , . 3113 How do vou know that he paid that rent r— From his own statement to me, and my belief of his integrity; he is a man of very good character. 3114. Did you see any receipt for his rent ?— No; those people very seldom get receipts. 311 5. Did you see any lease ?— No. 311( 5. Do you know whether he has a lease ?— I do not know. 3117. But he told you that he paid nine guineas a year ?— Yes. ' 3118. Did he tell you whether there was anything else included besides the house ?— Nothing but what I saw. 3119. What did you see ?—' The house. 3120. Mr. Lefroy.-] Did he know for what purpose you went to value the house ?— He did; he asked me, and I told him. 3121. You told him, that as he paid nine guineas a year, you would not go into the house ?— No, I did not; I merely satisfied myself. 3122. Chairman.] Did that man vote at the last election?— He did. 3123. Mr. Litton.] You have said that he told you that his rent was nine guineas a year; now suppose it was nine guineas a year, is it not usual for the landlord, on setting a house, to put it in repair ?— It is, in some parts of the city, not in others. 3124. Generally speaking?— Generally speaking, the landlords would put it in repair for their own sakes. 3125. Supposing it was in good tenantable repair, and set at nine guineas a year, from what you yourself saw, and from what Mr. Young has detailed in his evidence, would not you say it was reduced at least one- half its value ?— From appearance, to Mr. Young's view, it might indeed. 3126. Would it not be reduced one- half in value?— Apparently it would, but not in reality, because its contiguity to the weigh- house always makes it of value. 3127. If it was only nine guineas a year, and not in good repair, would it not be worth only half that ?— If it was set at that only a short period before, it would be of that value. 3128. If it had been set two or three years before at nine guineas, and deteriorated in the way you now know it was, would it not be only half that value ?— It would. 3129. And you do not know when it was taken ?— No. 3130. Chairman^ Do you consider a man living in a bond fide 10 I. house in the light of a pauper in the city of Cork?— I do not, but'I know they are returned what are called poor. 3131- They are poor for the purposes of taxation; they are not poor for the purposes of voting ?— Certainly, they are not; there are houses of 40 I. or 50/. returned poor upon the city rate- books. 3132- Mr. Serjeant Jackson.] Is this a man of the class you would call poor? l\ o he is what we call a comfortable working- man, but he is one of the par- ties that would claim to be exempt under the head of " poor;" I believe he pays taxes. 1 w* l33' W1iat I8 hi; OC? uPation He is a butter farmer, what the)- call a cant butter merchant; they buy from the farmers and sell, again. 3134- A kind of sky farmer ?— Exactly so. 3135- Chairman.] Does Jeremiah Mahony — Yes, a yard and stable, 3 I. S J, ie3fLIS n0t he out of a house in Rawbuck's- lane ?- stable, forming part of the house. landlord. Ml'' ^^ Held undei' the same landlord ?- Under the same 3138. Did you visit and value the house of Jeremiah Riordan, Curry's Rock, spoken Mahony appear valued in Rawbuck's- lane ? - A house and