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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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50 PARLIAMENTARY [ Fictitiousi > 7otrs, Reports, 1837- 8— continued. King's County— conti 1111 eel. 15627 Great care taken in 1832 by the Conservative party there, in bringing up their claimants; the great majority of whom were registered upon production of their former certificates, Deehan 15622- 15624. A number of the landlords in this county endeavoured to prevent their tenants from registering, Deehan 15581 Population of; number of registered voters ; percentage of° registered voters upon the population ; acreabie surface, arable and pasture, Daly 15174- 15202 Statistical account of, in relation to the number of taxable acres, popu- lation, and persons registered, Daly 15561, 15562 Average rent of land in Iving's County from 10s. to 20s. an acre; very few cases in which land is let at 30s. or 35s. per acre, Daly 15302- 15305 The lands in King's County are generally let under the marketable value, Daly 15320- 15331 The majority of fifty- pound freeholders in the King's County are of the Conservative party ; in the lists the rentchargers are distinguished from the twenty- pound freeholders with sufficient accuracy, Daly 15543- 15547 In King's County oniy four cases rejected by Mr. Gibson for want of sufficient value, Julian H735- See also Appeals, 3. Collops. Commonage, Right of. Elective Franchise. Farmers. Forbes, Lord. Forbes, Mr. Freeholders. Houses. Inspection of Deeds, fyc. Landlords. Notice of Registration, 1. Register of Voters, III, 2. Registration of Voters, II, 3. Schoales, Mr. Small Landholders. Tenantry, II, l. Turf. Kinnarney, Michael. He was rejected at the October sessions of 1836, the lease not being executed within six months prior to the holding of the court of registration ; he had been 33 years in possession without a lease, Daly 15147. L. Labour. The expense of labour upon an acre of oats would be about 11., Flood 8460, 8461 On an acre of potatoes, about 3/., Flood 8462 A farm of twenty- two acres would fully occupy the time of three persons during the whole year, Clogher 9884- 9892 Number of days a person cultivating a farm of twenty- one acres must necessarily ( without having other assistance) be employed, Clogher 10103- 10125 There is no labour required in attending grazing cattle; it is usual on twenty acres to have a herd to look after them ; it is generally a child, Clogher 10126- 10139 In many parts of Ireland labour is plentiful, but employment scarce, Battersby 14268- 14270 It is the general opinion amongst landholders in Ireland that the value of the straw is equivalent to the value of the labour, Daly) 15118, 15119. Labourers. There are more Catholics than Protestants in the situation of labourers in Longford, M'Gaver 12228, 12229 Those working for persons holding large farms are never so well off as those labourers who hold very small farms, M'Gaver 12228- 12244 Those who are employed at wages only, without diet, and not possessed of any land, can barely subsist, M'Gaver 12232- 12234. Land. Where persons are tenants from year to year, and their landlords are hostile to them in politics, not being sure of a renewal of the tenancy, they endeavour to take as much as they can out of the land, M'Gaver 12585 Quantity of land generally held by the tenants who were dispossessed 011 Lady Ross's estate, and those who succeeded, M'Gaver 12621- 12627- So great is the desire amongst ail parties in Longford to obtain land that ti ey will consent to pay a rent, which, when paid, will barely allow them the means of subsistence, Rooney 11594- 11596, Daly 15311- 15325 From the great competition lor land in Ireland, persons would be found to give more for it than what it was intrinsi- cally worth, Daly 15311- 15325. Though some lands are let at considerably under what could have been obtained tor them, they are let at what would be fair to enable the tenant to live comfortably upon the land, M'Gaver 12678- 12685 Whether landlords would for political purposes let their land at 18 s. or 20 s. an acre less than its value, unless under a distinct understanding that the tenants should vote with him, M'Gaver 12818- 12831 Some of the lands out of which parties wished to register had a very wild ap- pearance; they were more like a place for snipes than arable land, Fosbery 13090- 13094 Land in grazing districts, and u> ed for grazing, will produce best; it is not worn out by frequent tillage, Battersby 13750, 13751 Land contiguous to a town will let at 4 I. an acre, Daly 15298, 15299 No subject in the profession that is liable to so much discrepancy of swearing as a man's opinion of the value of land, Daly 15376, 15377- See also Conacre. Granard Barony. Granarkill. Greville Estate. King's County. Meadow Land. Mount Granard. Rent. LANDLORDS: In Longford— Those who take part in Tory politics have pledged themselves not to give land to Catholics, M'Gaver 11906- 11908 Several instances in Longford in which landlords have let their lands at a less rent than could have been obtained for tliem, in order to make freeholders, M'Gaver 12653- 12686 No disposition on the part
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