01' SELECT COMMITTEE ON FICTITIOUS VOTES, IRELAND. tion, that he had not described his residence sufficiently in the notice ? I did not attend these registry sessions for any purpose of objection. 397. Chamnan.] Is not the 15th section in this Act the one in which the manner of giving notice to the clerk of the peace of the intention to register is prescribed I— It is. s 398. In that section is there any reference made to the schedules ?— I do not see any. 399. Are you aware of any other section in the Act of Parliament, with re- gard to the mode of giving notice, in which the schedules are mentioned ?— I am not aware of any. 400. In that 15th section, are not the particular circumstances to be pointed out in this notice as specially described ?— They appear to me to be so. 401. Will you read from that section what a person claiming to register is • dered to specify?— He is to give notice in writing of his intention to register, and in such notice he shall state his name and residence, the right in which he intends to apply, and the nature of the qualification relied upon by him as en- titling him to be so registered. 402. Does it in any degree call upon him to specify the townland or parish? — It does not appear to me to do so. 403. Are you aware of any other section in the body of the Act, by which the name of the townland or parish is prescribed to be inserted ?— I am not. 404. Will you further state from that section, what the clerk of the peace or his deputy is to put in his list of notices?— The clerk of the peace is required, 10 days at least before the day appointed for holding the sessions, to " cause alpha- betical lists of the voters to be printed and circulated, and to be posted in con- spicuous places throughout such county, city, town, or borough." 4.05. Is any reference made there to the schedule?— I do not see any. 40b. Is the clerk of the peace called upon, in any other part of the Act of Parliament, to refer to the schedules?— I believe not. 407. And there is nothing prescribed in the Act as to entering the names of the townland or the parish? — No ; and I believe there is not a single instance in which the parish is mentioned in the city of Cork. 408. Is not the word " parish" inserted in both those schedules to which reference lias been made ?— It is in the schedule. 409. But in practice that has been entirely disregarded?— Entirely. 410. Mr. M. J. O' Connell.] Is not the word " parish" mentioned disjunctively ? — I think it is. 411. Chairman.] Will you read, from Schedule C, No. 2, what is required to be specified?—" If the same be in respect of property, with name of barony, townland, parish, street, or denomination or place where situate." 412. But nothing of that sort appears in the body of the Act ?— Not that I am aware of. 413. Nor, in fact, do you believe that such mode of description is practised?— As far as relates to the city of Cork, I am not aware that, in any instance, the townland is mentioned as the townland; it is sometimes adopted as the residence. 414. It is not mentioned as such and such a place, in such a townland?— Not at all. . . , 415. Have anv objections been made before the revising barrister as to the notices being defective, because the townlands have not been described?— I cannot tell; I did not attend at all to the proceedings. 416. Mr. Curry.] So far as your experience goes, does not the clerk ot the peace publish a notice containing a description such as that m the schedule, stating; the " description of property, with name of barony, townland, parish, street, or denomination or place where situate" ?— Not at all; he never refers to the barony or parish ; he adds nothing to what the notice contains. 417. Suppose the notice mentions the name of the place, would the clerk of the peace insert it in the list ?- Yes; whatever name is given in the notice, he °°^.' oat- LS!] How is the recorder of Cork appointed ?- By the election of the freemen at large. 41 q. Is it for life ?— For life : he holds it during good behaviour Will you have the goodness to take into your hand theReport ol_ the d 3 Mr. J. C. Besnard. 7 February 1838. 420. Commissioners