Yes. SELECT COMMITTEE ON FICTITIOUS VOTES, IRELAND. 2,„ 6364. In that respect then you would vary it from the English ghsh practice?- Mr. J. C. Besnard. 636 Do not you think that that right of appeal would be productive of great hardship and inconvenience to voters in attending at the assizes to have their appeals disposed of.— I think it would occasion some inconvenience; but person* have so much occasion to come at the assizes to the county town, that I do not think it wou d amount to the excessive inconvenience that mightatfirst be thought 0308. What is the average distance of the city of Cork from the outer boun- daries of the county ?— I cannot tell the average distance, for it is very unequal. 0369. What is the greatest distance ?— I suppose it is 70 miles. 6370. Are you rightly understood to say, that all the persons who might come before the revising barrister to have their votes put upon the register, are persons likely to have business in Cork during the assizes ?— I by no means mean to say so ; but a great many of them would. , 6371. Would half of them ?— It would be hard to make a computation in that way. 6372. Would one- fourth of them ?— I really do not know. 6373. Are not you aware that a great number of persons entitled to register for counties refuse to come up upon an appeal, in consequence of the inconve- nience and loss of time it puts them to ?— I am not aware of it; I know scarcely anything about the county. 6374. Mr. Serjeant Jackson.] As the law now stands, are you aware that there is an appeal on one side, that is, against improper rejections ; and the parties interested in those appeals must come up to the assize town, and appear before the judge of assize to prosecute that appeal ?— Yes. 6375. Mr. Curry.] Do you know whether it is the practice of Mr. Martley, the registering barrister of that district, to reject a person coming forward to register if he has given notices at two places in the way you have mentioned ?— I know scarcely anything of his practice. The first registration is the only one I have attended. 6376. You stated that, by serving notices at various places, people might in that way get their names fraudulently upon the register ?— I never heard that he refused to allow that to be done; I should rather think that it is not the case. 6377. You said you would make payment of rates the test of right to vote; would you apply that to the class of freemen also ?— Supposing it to be adopted with respect to the others, I would not think it unfair to apply it to the freemen also. 6378. What mode would you suggest, by which practically a party whose vote should be improperly objected to, should have the costs he was put to in defending his right secured to him ?— I think the revising barrister ought to have power to issue his warrant to levy them. 6370. Mr. Serjeant Jackson.'] Would it not be more sure if you were to require a small deposit upon taking the objection ?- I think a recognizance would make the matter too complicated. 6380. It appears to be very often the practice in the city of Cork that the individual registers in different rights, and that the same individual s same individual registers in different rights, and that ^ name, therefore, appears repeatedly upon the register es; the} verj often re- register A man re- registers as often as he pleases. 63^ 1 That, it appears" tends to aggravate tl, e confusion which extsts from Dfno^ oTtto^ h ™ of that inconvenience ^ ght be orated by having^ eparate columns for| the ditferent^-^ SSSS? * entitled to register, and only allowing the nameoteacni alifica- once, and setting down in the column approprmted to . 1 or tion or right, a mark, indicating that that I set ' out two, or three of those rights respectively K the propo* « not be with making, that is, a district arrangement, weie adopted, dcable 0.46. ~ PP4