SELECT COMMITTEE ON FICTITIOUS VOTES, IRELAND. / JJ 151 3473- Supposing there were but four rooms in the house ami tW , ^ are let at10<*. a week each, and that there was one himself, do you say that the house is good value for 10/ ?- JTdnn « ? hv T , " - let f0 lo,. a k; t th ^ ^ ^ 0^ * l838. 34/ 4- Then you do not beheve that they are truth- telling people^- I think Y0UnS t0 be — d ** valuation of ta^ theydt 347J- T^ en you think they are people that would deceive ?— A tax man 3470. Was he ever a collector of taxes?— He was a valuator for taxes ' . 3477- Do you think they could deceive Mr. Young as to the number of rooms 111 the house/? I do; I think they might have conceived that Mr. Youngs going there for the purpose of bringing them under taxation, and that thev used stratagem not to give him a full value. 3 3478. Do you think that Mr. Young is that kind of man, that going to visit a house to value it, he would be persuaded that a house that really contained six rooms contained only four ?— I think where he did not stand well with the people they might not show him the house fully; they conceived he was valuing for taxes. 3479. But you are not prepared to say that, in point of fact, it did contain more rooms than he stated ?— No, I am not; but if there were two rooms up stairs, they must be very commodious indeed, which I would not suppose would be for the advantage of a dwelling- house of that description. 3480. Mr. Lefroy.] If these people might have deceived him from the notion that he was going to value tliem for taxes, might not they have deceived you upon the supposition that you were going to value to support the register ?— They would not deceive me because they knew that I was a good friend of theirs; the man in the house knew me; he knew that anything he told me, I would never turn it to a taxing purpose, and therefore he would be prepared to give me a fuller account. 3481. Do you think that man would tell you every thing to his disadvantage ; that would go to show he was not qualified to register ?— I think he would ; I questioned him particularly, and he showed me that he was warranted in esti- mating his house at 10/. 3482. Do you think he would have treated you with particular confidence, in trusting you with all the disadvantageous circumstances of his premises ?— I think he would. 3483. Mr. Serjeant Jackson.] Do you know the man well?— I do. 3484. And he knows you well ?— He does. 3485. He knows that you are very busy about the electors in the registry ? — Yes, that is quite notorious. 3486. Do not you think that, knowing that, he would be likely to put to you the highest value, to sustain his vote ?— I think he would put the true value to me. 3487. Would not he be disposed to give you evidence tending to show the value to be 10 /. ?— No ; the poor man did not know I was coming here, and he did not know my object in asking. . 3488. He could have no doubt that your object was something connected with the good cause?— He knows I am always engaged in the good cause. • 3480 Mr. Lefroy.-] You told him that you were come to examine his house for the registry ?— I said I came to look at the house, and I asked him questions as to how he was entitled to register. 0400 Did any conversation take place, from which he could have collected that you were going to support the value of the premises ?- None, more than lie might have thought I was going to support the register before the barrister, but nothing as to my coming to England. ^ .. f Wpl_ 340 Mr. Beamish.] Did you visit the premises of Joseph Barrett,, of W e lington- road, who is spoken to by Mr. Young, m answer 21/ 2 ?- No his registry was not ripe at the last election, therefore he could not vote; and Mr Colburn, in his answer 2186, said that Edward Barrett, ^. gjtoojgirtarf out of a house and premises, the 2d of November 1832; and this piau uemg by me considered the liberties, I did not visit it. spoken 3 , q2. Did you visit the house of Thomas Barry, of Paul's- street who is spoken to by Mr. Young, in answer 2194 ?- I did ; this man's house was partly taken down by the Wide- street Commissioners, at the request of my, elf and others, to 0.46. u4