s e l e c t c o m m i t t e e oN f i c t i t i o u s v o t e s , i r e l a n d . sJ7' 24T it tmieZl Glanmire- road, or the name of the place; suppL 5519- Then you would require the name of the place at which he resided the name of the plough and in which that place is situated, and the name of he mam road that passed along ?- Either the main road or the name o the lace but m every instance the name of the ploughland. 1 .5520. And you would cause the lists to° be made out and published, arrange the parties according to the alphabetical order of their name and their house and likewise specifying all those particulars which you have mentioned?— I think it would facilitate the investigation very much. 5521. And when the people came to register, it would facilitate the parties who came to check the registry before the barrister ?— Yes. 5522. Also with regard to the election ; when they came to divide the parties 111 booths, you would of course recommend having an adequate number of booths, so as to enable the whole constituency to be polled ?— Yes. 5523. Would you likewise recommend that the parties should be divided into booths, not only according to the letter of their names, but according to the district in which they lived ?— Yes, I think so, for the purpose of checking the votes. .5524. As the law now stands, men who live in opposite extremities of the liberties go into the same booth to vote ?— Yes. 5525. In fact, persons living the most remotely asunder go to vote at the same booth ?— They do. 5526. That must of course aggravate the expense and difficulty of checking improper votes, and preventing personation very much?— It is very difficult to check it. 5527. Do you produce a list which purports to be a list of the names of the different ploughlands in the north and in the south liberties respectively ?— Yes, and the number of acres, without the decimal parts. [ The Witness delivered in the same.] 5528. Mr. Beamish.] Those lands have sub- denominations?— Some of them have sub- denominations. Jovis, 8° die Martii, 1838. MEMBERS PRESENT. Mr. Beamish. Mr. F. French. Mr. Serjeant Jackson. Mr. Lefroy. Mr. Litton. Mr. Lucas. Lord Granville Somerset. LORD GRANVILLE SOMERSET, IN THE CHAIR. Mr. Benjamin Deeble, called in ; and further Examined. 5529. Mr. Serjeant Jackson.] IN the course of your examination yesterday, you specified several causes that tended to create difficulty in the way 01 scruti- nizing and ascertaining the rights of persons who claimed to be voters in the city of Cork, and you were examined a little as to what might occur to you to be remedies. Are you aware of any other circumstances that tend to create^ diffi- culty in the way of proper investigation and scrutiny of the ^ fj^ coming to register. For example, are there not, 111 certain letters of the alphabet a wry large proportion of claimants to register, the initial letter of whose names begin with certain letters ?— There are. . . , , W For example, the letter C.; - ththat letter, in the county of the city of Cork r— mere aie 10 I Ja" 53?; ( To Mr. Colburn.) Yon have the register before yon; what numtod.