SELECT COMMITTEE ON FICTITIOUS VOTES, IRELAND. l8g J? 0" many h0USeS are there in ^ is lane There may be five ; I do not think there are ten. There is a slaughter- house there - but I believe there is not a single house in that lane valued ' 4277. Mr. Serjeant Jackson.] Then the value of these tenements seems to 4278. Who is Cooney's landlord?— I do not know. 4279 Would you, on an inspection of the house, value it at 10/ Indeed I would not; the rent surprised me. '' inaeea 4280. You would not add anything to the value of the house, upon the ima gmary score of aspect, or pleasant air, as two people could not walk abreast in the lane, and as there is a slaughter- house adjacent ?— Certainly not • it is a very disagreeable situation ; the rent really astonished us; it is a trade'peculiar to that neighbourhood; it is, in fact, I believe, a receptacle for stolen goods. 4281. Then the convenience of this house for being a depository or a recep- tacle for all these old stores, and stolen goods, is the ingredient that formed the chief value of this house ?— Indeed, I should think it is; it is the centre of the market there. 4282. Is the house really intrinsically worth 5/. a year?— It is; it is quite near the North Main- street, a very important street; it is the first house in the lane going down to North Main- street; the man is a very comfortable man, and he keeps it in very neat order; we really were very conscientious in valuing these houses. 4283. Mr. Beamish.'] Did you visit the house of Thomas Cavenagh, cooper, Old Market- place, No. 745 ?— We did. 4284. Did you examine his premises, and do you consider them of the value of 10/. ?— Thomas Cavenagh, cooper, Old Market- place, pays 9/. 10. v. Irish; has it upwards of 20 years. It is a public- house;, and I am quite surprised it is not valued. 4285. Chairman.] How much is that, British currency ?— About 8/. 15s. 4286. Is it underlease?— I presume so, as he has it upwards of 20 years; and it is in the business part of the town, the Old Market- place, where there is a potatoe- market in front; but we cannot trace these houses in the valuation books ; they change names so often, I found it impossible to trace them, except in my own neighbourhood, where I could trace every house. 4287. Mr. Beamish.] Are you aware that the house is returned in Mr. Lane's list as not having been valued at all ?— It is ; it may be valued in some other name, but he has had it upwards of 20 years. I endeavoured to trace them, but I could not do it, except in my own neighbourhood. 4288. Then, in fact, the names in Mr. Lane's book are 110 criterion?- 4289. Then are the Committee to understand that the return made by Mr. Lane can give them no idea as to the value of the houses registered ?— Cer- tainly ; it is no guide whatever. 4200 Did you visit the premises of John Collins, Douglas- street, 748 in Mr Lane's evidence ?— I will satisfy the Committee that that house is valued in the city- rate valuation. I have it here in the valuation- book without his name " 891, in White- street;" it is a house at the corner of White- street ; it has one door in Douglas- street, and another in White- street, and we valued it as early as 1828, in the name of John Coveney. 4291. At what did you value it?— At 7U it is next door to my own salt and lime- works. . 4 .02 Chairman.] That was the full value that you put upon it r— That was whtt we valued it It for the city rate ; I would value it at 12/.; I dare say he ^ 420^ You^ ay that you valued it for city purposes' at 7 I; was that the real value of the house when vou valued it ?— It was a fair proportionate valuation according tcf the^ aluatk) n we put upon other houses in the neighbourhood. 4294. Do youmean to ^ that, i « street, because I know almost every house man thftt names here of all the household voters in Douglas- street. j ^ 0.46. B B 3 IP / - Not Mr. Richard Gould. 2 March 1838.