& SELECT COMMITTEE ON FICTITIOUS VOTES, IRELAND, 6- 0 by sent* the others.* ' ™ mber ™ then and then, np toJanuary : 83s, I Mr. John Colburn. ulrch\^ rman'] Whendid>' 0U send the first ?- About the 12th or 13th of 19 February ,838. 1230. Did you forward your communications to Her Majesty's Castle at Dub- lin by private hand or by post ?— Always by post. 1231. You are quite certain that you did so ?— Quite; my clerk in the office will be able to prove that. 1232. Mr. Beamish.] Can you state how many marksmen appeared unon the registry of 1832 ?— No. " v 11233. In the gross number you have stated, 738, there are included double regis- tries ."— Yes ; 111 the gross number of 6,093 that appear upon my books as having registered there are a great number of re- registries. G . 1234- Mr. Serjeant Jackson.'] Should you be able to distinguish from the ori- ginal documents how many persons have registered more than once?— It would be impossible : notices were served, for instance, for the Cork sessions; when few persons attended, then for Middleton. There are different places where they can register for the city of Cork ; there is Cork, and Mallow, and Middleton, and Kanturk, and Fermoy, where registries take place ; one man will register at Fermoy, and then serve another notice for the next sessions for Middleton. 1235. Then any persons who desired to register for the city of Cork can give their notices for any one of those places that they please ?— Yes. 1236. When they do register they make an affidavit?— Yes. 1237. Must not that affidavit be deposited with you ?— Yes. 1238. Can you not, therefore, from those original documents, distinguish how often the same man is registered ?— If I was to look through the affidavits, proba- bly I might; but that might be an endless task. A question arose as to the pro- ducing of a certificate, w hether a man could not register again upon that, and he registered without an affidavit. 1239. Mr. French.] Is not that according to law ?— It is. 1240. Mr. Serjeant Jackson.] So that the affidavits would not enable you to give a perfect list of all that had registered twice ?— No ; there appear upon this list 6,093, and I suppose half that number would not vote, and could not be put forward. 1241. Have you any doubt that more than one- half appearing upon the register are either dead men, or persons that have parted with their qualification, or persons that have registered twice ?— I cannot answer that question ; there are a great number of persons that I do not know. 1242. Can you not form a judgment as to what number of them are persons still alive, and persons possessing still their qualification, and persons that have registered only once ?— I could not take upon me to say. 1243. Flave you any doubt whatever that a very large proportion of these 6,093 now appearing upon the register are persons that have registered twice or three times, or persons that have parted with their franchise, or persons that are dead ? 1244 Mr. Beamish.] Do you know anything of your own knowledge of per- sons that have changed their residence?— No, I do not; I have heard persons say that the reason that they registered again was in consequence of having disposed of their house, or having changed their residence and registered for another place. 1245. Mr. Serjeant Jackson.] Must not there be a great number of instances ot that kind ?— I conceive there must be. 1246. Mr. Beamish. J Are there not many persons registered in more than one capacity ?— There are some as freemen, some as freeholders, and some as house- holders. , 1 r 0 \ r 1247. And that necessarily increases the number of namesles. George Dyson, Esq., called in; and Examined. 1248. Chairman.] WERE you the clerk of this Committee in the last session of G. DySON. i-, q. Parliament?— I was. 1240. And also in the present?— Yes. ru ™ ™ ;*^ transmit ,250. Mr. Serjeant Jackson.] Did you, by order of this Committee, transmit