SELECT COMMITTEE ON FICTITIOUS VOTES, IRELAND. , ^ j / J / j rent " W bring ' 5842. lane ?— of the houses in 1835 _ Do you consider them of the value of 10 /. ?— I consider that they are 5 844. Are you aware what rent he pays for them ? - I do not know exactly the it; I have set down here « Good value, situation taken into account • there ; as 16 rent paid by his father for the same premises." In 1835 it appears that he paid 12 s. Gd. for rates, not for the house, but for the stable 5845. Chairman.] He was valued at 3 /., was not he ?— I do not know what he was valued at. .5846. Mr. Serjeant Jachson.] What kind of house was this?— I think it was a thatched house. 5847. How many stories high?— The ground- floor, and another over. 5848. How many rooms in the house ?— I did not go into the house; the stable I valued as being valuable from the contiguity to the weigh- house. ^ 5849. Is not it a poor thatched- house ?— It is not what I should call a poor thatched- house, because there are few thatched- houses that have a story over head. 5850. Was it a good house ?— A good house of that description, as a thatched- house. 5851. Was the house or the stable most valuable?— I should think the stable and yard were more valuable than the house. 5852. What value would you put upon the house separately?— I suppose the house mav be valued about 6/. 5853. Do } rou think it was worth that to a solvent tenant, independently of anything else ?— I think it is worth that from its situation; those places are valu- able about there from their contiguity to the weigh- house. 5854. What would it cost to build such a house as that ?— I suppose it would cost from 30/. to 35/. to build such a house as that, when new. It is an old house. 5S55. Is Rawbuck's- lane a valuable part of the town?— No, the lane is a smali lane; but from its contiguity to the weigh- house, it is more valuable than it would be otherwise. The places are let for offices for the butter merchants. 5856. Chairman.] Do you consider that the value of the ground in Rawbuck's- lane for the purposes of building is as great as in most other parts of Cork ?— It is rather a valuable place just now, as long as the weigh- house remains there. 5857. Supposing there was an unoccupied space in Rawbuck's- lane for you to build a house and premises upon, would you expect to get it at a higher or lower rate than in most other parts of Cork ?— I should think it would be higher than in many other lanes in Cork, with the exception of those immediately in the city. . _ . , 5858. Is Rawbuck's- lane so valuable as to put it upon an equality m the ren likely to be given for ground for building purposes with other parts of Cork?— Ii any particular part is pointed out, I can make a comparison. 5850 What would you say is the price of the first- rate buildmg- ground ?— The first- rate building- ground would be in the city ; it would not bear any pro- P01^ 6o. t0Would it come within 100 per cent.?- I think it would come within ^ 861. Would it come within 50 per cent ?- I think it would r- Rfio What do vou consider to be the fair remuneration per cent, that a per soil \ vould expect laying^ mt his money in building houses of that sort; what do 5864. Then, Mr. Henry Barry. 3 March 1838.