SELECT COMMITTEE ON FICTITIOUS VOTES, IRELAND. ' 1402. That is a central parish in the city of Cork It is 1403. Have you any document with you which would enable you to state the houses which you did visit, and their value?— I have. — I have HaVe y° U any HSt ° f lhe PerS° nS Wh° are re^ stered as 10 I- householders ? Mr. John Young. 19 February 1838. 1405. Had you it at the time you were valuing?— No, I reference to it at all. had not; I had no 1406. Did you visit the house of a person named James Miller?— I did 1407. Where is it situated?— At Blackpool. 1408. When did you visit it?— Since Christmas; since I received my summons to come here. ' 1409. Did you examine his house with a view to set a value upon it? 1 did. 1410. What is the value of his house?— I do not think his house is worth more than 5 /. a year. 1411. Is there any yard annexed to it?— There is about a quarter of an acre of land. 1412. Did you value his house and the quarter of an acre of land ?— I did. 1413. Putting a liberal value upon it, what is the highest you would value it at, taking the house and land altogether?— I do not think it is worth more than 5/. a year. 1414. Chairman, to Mr. Colburn.] Does James Miller appear upon the list of registered voters ?— James Miller, a carpenter, at Blackpool, appears to have registered on the 30th of March 1836, out of a house and land at Blackpool, as a 10/. householder. Voted 1837. 1415. Mr. Beamish, to Mr. Young.] Did you go into that man's house and examine his premises?— 1 did. 1416. Did vou examine them thoroughly, so as to ascertain their value?- - I did. 1417. Do you know what rent that man paid?— He told me he paid four guineas a year. 1418. Are you aware whether he built the house himself, or whether that is the ground- rent ?— The house appears to me so old, that he could not have built it him- self ; it is so old, I have no doubt of it. 1419. Was that four guineas paid for the house, or for the house and ground ?— I asked him the rent he was under, and he said four guineas a year; I took it that he meant the house and ground. 1420. Then, in fact, the four guineas might be the rent for the house alone, and the land might be paid for in addition ?— It might. 1421. And you, of your own knowledge, cannot say whether that rent was for the house, or the house and ground ?— I cannot say. 1422. Mr. Serjeant Jackson.] But you asked him what rent he stood at there, and he informed you four guinea?, and he did not say that was for the house alone, or for the ground alone ?— Exactly so; I asked his wife to show me the ground. 1423. No matter when the house was built, or by whom it was built, is it your judgment, from having examined the house, together with the ground, that they are " not this day worth more than 5/. ?— It is. 1424. That is the most you would value them at?— It is. 1425. Mr. Beamish.] Did you see his reccipt for the rent?— I did not. 1426. Mr. Serjeant Jackson.] Did you visit the house of Cornelius Noonan?— I did ; I was not inside it; I was at it, and went round to the back of it through another house next to it, and saw it and the ground. 1427. You saw it front and rear?— Yes. 1428.- When was that ?— Since I received my summons. 1420 How much land has he ?—' The land he has is so small that I cannot put an acieable size upon it; a small piece of ground the breadth of the house. 1430 Is it a garden?— What they call in Ireland a garden, a potato garden. 1431. What might be the breadth of the house ?— Eighteen or 20 feet. 1432. What kind of house is it?— It is a general ruin, repair. 1433- 1434. 1435. was it ?- 0.46. Eighteen general ruin, very much out of Is it more than one story high?— No. Is it slated or thatched ?— Slated. 1f You stated that strip of land was the breadth of the house ; what depth - As well as I recollect, 50 or 60 feet. L 1430. What