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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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86 PARLIAMENTARY [ fictitious votes, ^ Reports, 1837- 8— continued. Sweeney, Morgan. Butcher, Cattle Market- street, Cork ; registered out of shop at Market- lane"; does not appear in the valuation, Lane 896. Sweeny, Terence. Allen's- lane, Cork; his house not worth more than 5Z., Young 1727- 1729. 1731- 1736 Pays 10/. a year rent; the house is worth that sum, Meagher 3255- 3287 He registered in 1836; voted in 1837, Colburn 1730 His name does not appear in the valuation books, Lane 1737. T. Taxation ( Cork). Mode in which the premises outside the line separating the liberties from the suburbs are assessed in Cork; authority under which the money is levied, Besnard 135- 143 - In the city and suburbs of Cork the taxation is upon houses; in the liber- ties it is by ploughlands, Besnard 147, 148 Acts'of Parliament regulating the local taxation of Cork ; description of tenements to be rated, Lane 534, 535. See also Cork, 3. Rates. Valuation of Cork. Taylor, John. Admitted to the freedom of Cork in right of apprenticeship; his master relinquished business twelvemonths before the expiration of his indentures, Meagher and Besnard 4790- 4795 He continued to collect the debts of his master, which was considered by the corporation as a sufficient performance of his indentures, and on these grounds he was admitted, Besnard 4790. Ten Pound Householders. Description of houses inhabited by persons registering as ten- pound householders in Cork ; average rent of dwelling part of the house about il. 10s.; they are generally thatched houses, Deeble 5591- 5594- List of persons appearing 011 the registry as ten- pound householders in the city of Cork, who are valued in city books under that sum, App. i. p. 301- 305 Persons registered as ten- pound householders in the city of Cork, who do not appear as valued in the city books at any time, App. i. p. 306- 307 Extract therefrom, with Mr. Gould's observations thereon, App. i. p. 318 Persons registered as ten- pound householders in the city of Cork who were valued in the supplementary valuation of 1833, and upon appeal were struck out and not charged, App. i. p. 308 Extract therefrom, with Mr. Gould's valuation of the premises, App. i, p. 319 List of ten- pound householders in the city of Cork as sustained and accounted for by Mr. Daniel Meagher, App. i.^. 322. TENANTRY: I. Generally, their character, fyc. II. Manner in which they would vote at Elections if left to themselves. 1. In King's Countv. 2. In Longford. I. Generally, their character, 8fc. In many instances the tenants are pressed forward to swear what thay know to be false, Courtenay 6825- 6829 On estates where the holdings of Roman- catholics have been enlarged, and they are treated in the same way as Protestants, they are just as good tenants; they have not the same ideas of cultivating their farms with neatness, Courtenay 7312- 7317 Roman- catholics are in general very good tenants, M'Gaver 12092 Mr. Greville's tenants are the very worst description of persons who appeared to register in Longford, in point of demeanour and every thing else, Fosbery 13194. II. Manner in which they zcould vote at Elections if left to themselves : 1. In King's County : Tenants if left to themselves would not generally vote with their landlords unless their opinions were liberal, Deehan 15644- 15655. 2. In Longford : The generality of voters on properties managed by witness would, if left to themselves, have voted with their landlords, Courtenay 7222, 7223 Opinion that Roman- catholic tenants, if left to themselves, would vote with their landlords, Courtenay 13538. 13572 Previous to the interference of the Roman- catholic clergy the Catholic tenantry voted with their landlords, whether Liberal or Conservative, M'Gaver 12752, 12753. In Longford there has been no persecution of tenants for voting against the inclina- tion of their landlords, Courtenay 7188- 7192 Witness has cautioned the tenants on certain estates that if they voted against their landlords they might be sorry for it, Courtenay 7192* They were induced to vote against their landlords from being visited at night by armed parties coming to their houses, in some instances digging graves at their doors, firing shots, & c., Courtenay 7218 Those Roman- catholic tenants who voted with their landlords can find no purchasers for their goods; they are also denounced at the chapel, Courtenay 7226- 7228. See also Clearance of Estates. Landlords and Tenants. Ternan,
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