SELECT COMMITTEE ON FICTITIOUS VOTES, IRELAND. , ^ j / J / j 4.6.. Is . t upon the left- hand side of the way as you go up from the Bishop's Ti6~ nd; i, J" Up° n a bitof " aste Sround that was there P° or five "' ears " house newly built ?- Perhaps within three or four do not. 4163. Chairman.-] Since 1833?— I should suppose about 1833 4104. Mr. Beatmsh.] You do not know when it was built • No I 4165. Mr. Serjeant Jackson.] Did the man tell you when it was built?— No Buckley was not at home. ' ' 4165*. Would you in all consider it a satisfactory criterion of the value, - man lets his rooms for?— With a fail- cases rents which the amount of the weekly deduction. 4166. What deduction would you think fair?— Rather a liberal deduction. 4167. What do you call a liberal deduction ?— Perhaps 20 or 25 per cent. 4168. You would take 25 per cent, off the nominal amount of the weekly pay- ments ?— Certainly. J * J 4169. Do not you think that even 50 per cent, would not be an unreasonable allowance to cover all losses ?— In a few cases it might be so ; but, generally speak- ing, I think 20 or 25 per cent, would be sufficient, because those weekly rents are generally very well paid ; I am told they are the best paid rents in Cork, for they seldom let them go into arrears; they do not miss 10 d. or is. a week. 4170. Then they turn them out if they do not pay?— They do, very generally. 4171. Would not the consequence of this be, that those tenements must be very frequently unoccupied ?— I do not find that they are unoccupied, there is such a dense population in the poor districts. 4172. You do not think that the owners of those houses who let out their tene- ments by apartments to weekly lodgers are often at a loss in consequence of the rooms being vacant?— I do not think they are, for they are upon the spot them- selves, and the rents are generally paid, I understand. 4173. Do you happen to be the owner yourself of houses let out in that way? — No ; I have three houses, and they are let out to three workmen of mine. 4174. The whole house to each?— The whole house to each. 4175. Then you are not in possession of any tenement occupied in this way, let out in rooms ?— No. 4176. Do you happen to know whether there is a great deal of wear and tear occasioned by the letting out of rooms in that way to poor people ?— There must be, but I think 25 per cent, is sufficient allowance. I understand that they are better paid than houses that are let entirely to one tenant each. 4177. Are not they a very poor description of persons?— They are; but the lodger of one of those rooms gets his weekly wages, and his landlord takes care that he gets his 1 s. or l o d. a week, or whatever it may be. 4178'. Do you think that 25 per cent, would be a sufficient allowance to cover all the losses to which a landlord is subjected by reason of the wear and tear of premises occupied in that manner, and likewise by the circumstance of the rent not being punctually paid, and by the circumstance of the premises being vacant unavoidably for some portion of the year?— I do; generally speaking, I think 25 per cent, would be a very fair thing. . 4179. But you would not consider yourself so good a judge upon that as a person that was in the habit of letting out houses in this way?— I would not put my opinion in competition with that of any one else in this way; but generally speaking, I am told that they are the best- paid rents in Cork. I know one gen le- man, a Mr. Maurice Daly, who has let out his houses in that way. I am told that he gets his rents most regularly paid. 4180. Do you know Mr. Young?— I do- 4181. Is he a very respectable citizen oi Cork f— Me deal of property of this description. 4182. Let out in apartments ?— Yes. 4183. Would you think him a competent judge I would. , MI 4184. He is not only a respectable man, but a sensible regards his own property, he is sensible e" 0U^ an hat would tell the truth, and 41 85. He being a respectable man, and a man hat: wo^^ ^ ^ ^ ^^ a man that has this kind of property to cieai witu uHI » « , 0.46. A A 4 is Mr. Richard Gould. 28 February 1838. and he has a good of such matters ?— Indeed man?— I dare say, as better