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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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56 P A R L I A M E N T A R Y [ ^ f i c t i t i o u s > Totr0, Reports, 1837- 8— continued. Longford County— co » tiniled. complaint ever made to witness that a man had his skull fractured in attempting to get into the registry court at Longford, Fosbery 12987- 12996. See also Advances to Voters. Agents, 1. Appeals, 4. Assistant Barristers. Beneficial Interest. Certificates of Registry. Churchwardens. Conacre. Counsel. Ejectments. Farms. Forbes, Lord. Frauds. French, Mr. Illegal Societies. Insolvents. Intimidation. Joint Tenants. Justice Rent. Justice, Administration of. Landlords. List of Claimants, fyc., II. Magistrates. Notices of Registration, 2. Oaths, 3. Oats. Occupation. Orangemen. Party Spirit. Perjury. Potatoes. Protestant Clergy. Qualification, 2. Registration of Voters, I. 2, II. 4, III. 3, IV. 3. Registration Fund. Re- registration of Voters. Rentchargers. Revision of Register of " Voters, II., III. 3. Ribbon Societies. Robinson, Mr., Jun. Roman- catholic Clergy. Speeches. Tenantry, II, 2. Tighe, Mr. Tithe Composition Act. Title. Valuators, 2. Value, 1,2. Wages. Witnesses. Longford Election. Opinion, whatever interest could be thrown into this election in 1832, by the Castle of Dublin, was thrown in, in favour of Lord Forbes, ~ Nicholls 10577- 10580 —— At the last election several bankrupts and insolvents voted, Gardiner 8070- 8073. See also Anglesea, Marquis of. Bribery. Exhortations. Insolvents. Police. Qualification. Longford Election Committees. Great number of the votes objected to in 1832 remain 011 the Longford register; those examined into and decided against by the Committee were taken off by a warrant of the then Speaker, Courtenay 6541- 6557 Further examina- tion into the cases of persons who have been registered as voters for the county of Longford, and whose votes were struck off by the Election Committees of 1833 anfI 1837, Flood 9283- 9320. 9373- 9381 The greater part of the persons objected to before the Committees received notices that their titles would be questioned, Flood Q439- Q441 List of the names of persons who were struck off the register for Long- ford by the Committee of 1837, anc^ vv' 10se holdings are marked in the maps produced, Clogher 9893- 9898= Great many of the votes admitted by witness, 011 the Liberal side, have been struck off by the Committees of the House of Commons ; some of them very good votes, Fosbery, 13023- 13025. 13131, 13132 Voters, who had been struck off the registry, did not produce any additional evidence to show an improved value of the property out of which they claimed previous to their re- registration, Gardiner 7434, 7435 Names of the cases examined into before the Longford Election Committee, in 1837, which were given up as cases that could not be supported in value, Gardiner 8018- 8033. See also Title. Value. White, Mr. White & Roarke, Messrs. Witnesses. Lorton, Lord. At the expiration of a lease of a townland, it was found covered with paupers; they were turned out because the land was over- peopled; selection made of the better class of Roman- catholics, who were left 011 the ground, and their farms enlarged, Courtenay 7258- 7262' The experiment made by him for improving his property and the condition of his tenantry has not been successful, Courtenay 7275- 7277. 7292- 7294 Protestants have been put in on the lands which those paupers had been turned from, but not to the entire exclusion of Roman- catholics, Courtenay 7259 In no instance did he make a clearance of Roman- catholics; but whenever a Roman- catholic was got rid of, he had money for going, Courtenay 7286- 7287 Two or three free- holders on one of his estates, who voted on the Liberal side, were served with ejectments for non- payment of arrears of rent, and were obliged to clear out before the next season, M'Gaver 12597- 12599. Previous to the interference of Roman- catholic clergy in politics, a whole townland on his property was laid waste; particulars thereof, M'Gaver 11875- 11885 Further particulars respecting the turning out the Catholic tenantry on this estate, and sub- stituting Protestants, M'Gaver 12063- 12080. 12384- 12396 It is not true that he turned away his Roman- catholic tenantry to make room for Protestants, Courtenay 13399, 13400. 134° 5- 134° 7 Desired witness to give a flat contradiction to the assertion that he had turned off Roman- catholic to make way for Protestant tenants, Courtenay ,134° 5- 134° 7 Number of Catholic families ejected from his property since 1831; in some cases they have received compensation, in others none, M'Gaver 12211- 12214 The agent to this estate has often declared his intention to turn out tenants, merely on the ground of their being Roman- catholics, M'Gaver 12112- 12137 Statement of four Roman- catholic tenants, who were dispossessed in 1833; with the amount of com- pensation they respectively received, and the compensation they believe to have been paid to others, M'Gaver 12834- 12838, Ev. p. 270, 271. See also Arrears of Rent. Clearance of Estates. Ejectments. Employment. Lisnana, Lands of. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. See Registering Barristers. Lucett, Edward. Registered out of a house and land at Bellview ; he lives in the south liberties, on Money Gurney, Deeble 5961, 5962. Lynchy
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