ON THE LOCAL TAXATION OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN. 19 ' Are you aware that government sent down the description and nature of the clothes Mr. to be provided, without any communication with the grand jury?— I was not aware Richard Purdy, of it. ^ ^ ' Are you aware of the rate at which those clothes are supplied for the convicts?— ( 29 April.) The contract was at twenty- two shillings per suit. By whom were they so supplied ?— By Mr. Dalton, as I was informed. Are you sure that Mr. Dalton was the contractor?— I was told that the contract ii. 7 was in his name. Are you sure that the contract was in his name?— It was so stated respecting the contract to which I allude. Are you aware that there is such a person in the city of Dublin as a man of the name of Graham, a merchant tailor ?— I know a Mr. Christopher Graham, a member of the common council, a wholesale woollen merchant, but not a merchant tailor. Do you mean to say that he was not the contractor in his own name, and in his own person ?— I do; there was a subsequent contract which I understand has been • f. -. i. i- taken by Mr. Christopher Graham. Subsequent to when?— Subsequent to the early part of 1822 ; I do not know the — date. Do you mean to say that the supply of October 1822, was not by Mr. Graham ?— I do not go so far as to say that, but I say that the name I saw in the prison was Dalton, not Graham; I certainly understood the name to be Dalton. Are you aware that the supply contracted for originally, for the supply of the contract, turned out to be deficient, that is, there were not sufficient number of suits for the number of convicts ?— I am not. Are you aware that when the stipulated number was provided, that application was made for the contractor to provide as many more as were required?— I am not. Are you aware that he refused to supply any more, as he had lost by his contract? — I am not. Are you aware that the grand jury, upon more than one occasion, refused the increased salary of 100/. a year to the prison inspector, upon his application?— I have seen it stated. Do you believe it?— I have no reason to believe it or to doubt it. Where have you seen it stated ?— In a work printed and given to the friends of --•>< the officers of the prisons. Have you heard, or do you believe, that after that being on more occasions than one refused by the grand jury, that the judge himself, under the circumstances of the case and the great increase of public duties, ordered it?— It is so stated by officers of the prisons. Do you believe it?— I have no reason to believe or to doubt it. Upon seeing it in print, or hearing it from others, you have no reason to doubt it ?— I have no reason either to believe it or doubt it, from seeing it in print. You believe every thing that you have heard from the persons who supplied the materials for the parish report; you believe what you heard from Mr. Uffington ?— I do. You believe what Mr. Saul told you ?— I do. You believe what the deputy governor of the prison told you ?— I have no reason to doubt it. You believe every statement that you have given us here of the abuses ?— I be- lieve that every thing I have stated is truly stated by me. A great part of that statement arises from information you have received from others, and not from your own knowledge r— It does, from disinterested persons as I conceive. Then every statement you have mentioned you believe?— I do. Are you a freeman of Dublin ?— I am not; I am a householder, paying the city taxes. Are you aware, that you have the power as a freeholder, of traversing any pre- sentment that the grand jury chooses to pass?— I am. Have you ever traversed any of those contracts?— I have not; as an individual, I would rather pay my proportion than traverse, except for a public object; but the parish of St. Mary attempted to traverse the presentments made in Michaelmas term. What was the result of that attempt ?— The result was, that the presentments were fiated ; I understand the judge came at an early hour in the morning, to dis- charge a jury, that the persons who were employed to appear for the parishes, 549- " " w e re