i 11 52 MINUITTEESS OF EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE THE Veneris, 10° die Februarii, 1838. 1 I < MEMBERS PRESENT. Mr. Beamish. Sir Robert Ferguson. Mr. Fitzstephen French. Mr. Milnes Gaskell. Mr. Hogg. Mr. Serjeant Jackson. Mr. Lefroy. Mr. Litton. Mr. Lucas. Lord Granville Somerset. LORD GRANVILLE SOMERSET, IN THE CHAIR. Mr. James Lane, called in ; and further Examined. Mr. w 940- Mr. Serjeant Jackson.] HAVE you, in Committee, prepared a list in a tabular form ot the persons appearing on the 16 February 1838. register as 10/. householders who are valued in the city books under that sum . 1 04?.' Do you now produce the list you have so prepared ?— I do. 942. Have you carefully framed this list from the documents 111 your possession ? — 1 have, as carefully as I could. 043. Referring to the books of the valuation in your possession and to the registry ?— Referring to the books of valuation in my possession and to the col- lector's books, in which they specify the name of every person they receive rates from, and to the regular register. 044. Are you able to state to the Committee that that list is correct ?— To the best of my knowledge and belief, it is. 945. It gives the page in the book of register; the name of the party regis- tered ; his residence; out of what he is registered ; the date of his registry; the amount at which he appears valued in the books; the date of the valuation; the number affixed to his name in the valuation book 5 and in what parish his pre- mises are situated ?— Exactly so. 946. Will you hand in that list?—• [ The same was delivered in. Vide Appendix.] 947. That does not contain any account of houses which do not appear at all in the valuation ?— It does not. 948. Will you against the next day make out a similar list of them ?— I will endeavour to do so. < 949. Mr. Beamish.'] Are there not a great number of houses in Cork above 10/. value that are not paying rates?— I should be rather led to say there were, certainly. 950. Houses valued as high as 20/. or 251., and yet not paying rates?— Yes. 951. Mr. Serjeant Jackson.] How does that happen ?— I do not know whether it will happen so much now under the new Grand Jury Bill; but heretofore books were sent out to the parish constables and churchwardens, to make a return to me of such people as they conceived to be poor, and also of premises that were waste, in order to enable me to make an applotment; and certainly in several instances they have returned houses as poor that they ought not to have done so. 952. Who were the persons so employed ?— They are what are called parish constables ; there are two for pnrh nnrieVi 1 953. Can you give the names of those parish constables ?— Here are the con- stables at be spring assizes 1837 : John Power and William Belcher, for the parish of St. Nicholas; William Craig and James Wherland, for the parish of the Holy Trinity; John Hagerty and James Wherland, for the parish of the Holy Bennett and William Herda" d Th0mas Park> the parish of St. Peter ; Michael Merrick constables of the Pa" sh 0f St- Paul I Richard Tivy and William Ma tthews r « M St St Ann Shandon John Lee and George Matthews, constables of St. Mary; Goodwin Young and Gibbs Ross Dyer con- stables of the parish of St. Finn Bar. ~ ' Were