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Third Report from the Select Committee on Fictitious Votes, Ireland

30/07/1838

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Third Report from the Select Committee on Fictitious Votes, Ireland

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Ireland ELECTION. Reports, 1837- 8— continued. Clogher, Bryan. ( Analysis of his Evidence)— continued. of the farms which witness estimated the tenants had a beneficial interest of above 10/. 9958- 9961- Case of Daniel Cunningham, and examination thereon, 9962- 9091 Wages paid for labour per day in the country parts of Ireland, with and without diet, OQQS- iOooo Case of Michael Reynolds, 10001- 10042 ; of Philip Brady, 10043- 10078 Further examination respecting the land occupied by Gellacy, and the build- . ings erected thereon, 10086- 10102. [ Third Examination.]— Number of days a person cultivating a farm of 21 acres must necessarily, without having other assistance, be employed, 10103- 10125 There is 110 labour required in attending grazing cattle; it is usual, on 20 acres, to have a herd to look after them, generally a child, 10126- 10129 The lands in the barony of Granard are a very fine description of land; average value per acre, 10140- 10153 Amount of Brady's beneficial interest in his farm, 10154- 10166 Examination as respects the difference between the beneficial interest possessed by Roarke and Brady in their respective farms, the one being very good, and the other not so good land ; mode of calculation, and deductions made therefrom, 10167- 10267 In valuing farms, witness generally allows five per cent, for the wear and tear of stock of any description, 10268- 10273. Has never been called on to value beneficial interests in land till the present time, 10274- 10300 Further calculation as to the beneficial interest possessed by Brady in his farm, 10301- 10316 In calculating the beneficial interests of Brady and Roarke, witness has allowed a very low average for the produce per acre, 10323- 10325 There is not much difference in the tillage land of both ; poor land will produce two barrels of oats, and very good land will produce very little more, 10326- 10330-= The cultivation of bad land is the most expensive, 10331- 10336 Further evidence as regards the calculation of the beneficial interest of Roarke, 10337- 10353. Clonmel, Borough of. Return of the number of applications made to the Excise- office by parties appearing as electors on the registries, desirous of obtaining spirit licences, and stating their premises to be under the value of 10 I. yearly, specifying the names of the parties, and whether or no their requests have been complied with, for this borough, App. iii. p. 617. Closhmartle, Cork. Several of the persons who register as of Closhmartle live at Carri- grohan, Deeble 5475~ o477- Cody, John. His qualification was impeached as insufficient before the Longford Commit- tee of 1837, ancl was given up by the counsel as not being sustainable, Gardiner 8020- 8022. 8030- 8033 He voted at the last election for Longford, Gardiner 8024- 8026. Coffee, John. Mason, Stephen- street; registered for Cork in November 1832; he is valued on the supplementary valuation at 6 I., Lane 922. Coghlan, Patrick. He was admitted to the register for King's County on swearing that he had a beneficial interest of 10/. above his rent, Kelly 15050- 15053. Colburn, John. ( Analysis of his Evidence.)— Clerk of the peace for the city of Cork since 1831, 1174, 1175 Number of persons appearing on the registry, including non- resident freemen, 1184- 1188 Non- resident freemen voted at the last election, and also at the elections in 1832 and 1835, 1189- 1192 Names struck from the register by order of the House of Commons in 1835, were reinstated under the anthority of Mr. Martley, the revising barrister, 1193- 1201 Witness struck the names out of the list without consulting Mr. Martley, who approved of what he had done, 1205- 1216 Number of persons on the register that have signed their affidavits as marksmen, 1218- 1233 Impossible to distinguish from the original documents how many persons have registered more than once, 1234- 1247 Different places at which persons can register for Cork, 1234 Persons are frequently registered as freemen, freeholders, and householders, 1246. [ Second Examination.]— Instructions received by witness from Dublin Castle relative to certain returns required by the Committee on Fictitious Votes, Ireland, and of his answer thereto, p. 66, 67. Great inconvenience arises from the way in which the registries are at present effected, 1262- 1271 A shilling should be paid on giving notice to register; at present there are always a larger number of notices than registries, 1272- 1277- The non- resident freemen of Cork are a highly respectable class, 1278, 1279--— Some of them may have a local interest in the city, 1280, 1281 If the lists of claimants were made out with reference to parishes or districts, the labour of identifying parties would be diminished, 1282- 1290. Difficulty and expense of preventing personation or fraud at the polling- booths by reason of the alphabetical arrangement of the names, 1291- 1303 It would be con- venient to witnesses on all sides if the claimants were classed as to the locality, 1304- 1307 Mr. Gahan was one of the registering barristers in 1832, 1308- 1312—— Cir- cumstances connected with an alteration, made by his sanction, in the affidavit of a 643. b 4 forty
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