SELECT COMMITTEE ON FICTITIOUS VOTES, IRELAND. , ^ j / J / j consti- in thedeltion ™ YdH ^ * f/ f " ° f S*"" 1 in the « ** » >* » and in tne elections .— 1 do J I put myself to a great deal of trouble CO^ N; U^ OR^ IYTZ^ OPRETTY ^ ° F THE STATE OF * arcfdrad ^ itS S^ tX^^** « * * « 4413. A great number dead ?— There must be a great number 44 ' 4. Have you any idea whether there may be such a number as between 400 and oOO persons whose names appear upon the registry who are dead?— I have never turned my attention to look, but my own opinion is that there may be 400 or 500 dead. 4415- Have you any idea what number of persons there may be upon the registry who have actually left the premises out of which they originally regis- tered ?— I think it will be easy to ascertain that. 4416. Have you any idea that the number is little short of 1,000 ?— I should say more that have lost their votes by death or removal. 4417. Are you aware what number of those persons who have left the places out of which they originally registered have re- registered ?— A great many. 4418. Have you means of informing the Committee what number there might be of each class that have been now referred to; that is to say, those who have died, those who have removed and left, and lost the qualification, and those who have re- registered ?— No, I never turned my attention to it; I can give a pretty good idea of the number of those that have lost their qualifications in various ways ; but it would be endless work to distinguish between them. 4419. Could you state pretty nearly the number of each class?— I could state the gross number in a few minutes by deducting those that voted, and those that might have voted at the last election, from those that appear upon the register. 4420. You do not mean to say that every man that was possessed of a vote that was living, and that did not part with his qualification, came forward and voted at the last election ?— Within, perhaps, 200 or 300 did, in my opinion. 4421. Are you in a condition to supply the Committee, not only with the number of those that did actually vote, but with the number of those that were entitled to vote ?— I have formed an opinion of my own about those that were entitled to vote, and that did not vote. 4422. Chairman.] How do you get to the number that might have voted ?— I think there was a difference of between 200 and 300 who might have voted, and who did not vote. 4423. How do you get at the calculation ?— I take a great deal of interest in this registry; I have gone over the books very often, and, without actually counting the numbers that did not vote, I think if I say between 200 and 300, it would be as near the mark as possible. 4424. You have gone into this matter with a great deal of care, and you have had your attention very much directed to it; and your opinion is, that the whole of the legal constituency, within 300, voted at the last election ?— I think so ; I exclude the non- residents altogether. 4425. Mr. Serjeant Jackson^ Did not several non- residents vote ?— beveral did; but several did not vote. 4426. Chairman. 1 You do not mean non resident householders, but non- resident freemen ?- Yes; there were 3,188 voted at the last election, indepen- dent of the non- residents ; then, if I add 300 to that, or 312 to make « numbers, it will be 3,500. Now, taking that from the number returned by'Mi. Colburn, that will show the number that have no right to vote. J^ returned by Mr. Colburn, up to January 183/, all of whom were qualified to vote at the last election, were 5,727- , . afp rPO- istries ? 4427. Mr. Beamish. Do you include the duplicate, and trip cate le^ stnes - It included everything in Mr. Colburn s return. ^^^ Xon dents is 385. I think there are about 1,842 who have lost 4428. You mean to say there names than you conceive to be real voters ?— I think so, ^ registry, no matter how they have lost their right. 4420. Mr. Beamish.-] Do you not conceive that there are * c c 2 Mr. Richard Gould. 2 March 1838. the many that appear " re- registered