is 23 8 MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE TIIE T .. • •! fact that thev do not practically appear upon the registry ? Mr.* ™ ^. Jgy ; I l- e nearly 400 of them upon the regis- o February ,838. try,- d Aey^ vote ^^ iZmnny of thcm voted at the last election P ^ iT'chatZTlesides those that appear upon the registry, is there not a large body tliat never have appeared upon the registry ?- Yes, there are a gr845mWere the non- resident freemen, as a body, respectable individuals ?— they most country gentlemen P- Country And in regpect of their pr0perty they have votes in the parts' of the country in which they reside ?— Yes. 848 But have no connexion with Cork or its trade ?— Certainly not, as a body ' There may be a few individuals of them that have some interest m trade in Cork but I think they have no right to interfere in our elections. Luna, 12° die Februarii, 1838. MEMBERS PRESENT. Mr. Beamish. Mr. Curry. Mr. Dennistoun. Mr. Hogg. Mr. Serjeant Jackson. Mr. Litton. Mr. Lucas. Lord Granville Somerset. LORD GRANVILLE SOMERSET, IN THE CHAIR. Mr. James Lane. Mr. James Lane, called in; and further Examined. 849. Mr. Serjeant Jackson.'] YOU on the last day desired to have an oppor- tunity of checking the remaining cases in which persons might appear to be 12 February 1838. upon the register and not upon the valuations; have you done so?— I have. 850. Are you now prepared to give the Committee the results ?— I am. 851. Will you now turn to the next case . which appears upon the printed register, of a party who was registered out of a house, and who does not appear to be in the valuation either of 1828 or 1832?— The next is Thomas Geary, coach- globe maker, Douglas- street; house at Douglas- street; IOZ. householder, registered the 14th of November 1832. 852. Is he upon either of the valuations ? — He was put on the supple- mentary valuation at ol., and he appealed personally against the valuation, and was struck out. 853- The grand jury investigated his claim and allowed it ?— They allowed it; I could not take upon me to say whether they investigated it. 854. Is not it the course of business that, when a man presents an appeal, the grand jury investigate the claim ?— Of course. 855. Have you any reason to suppose that they neglected it in this particular case ?•— No. 1 856. Mr Beamish.] Do you conceive that the grand jury take much pains to ascertain whether the case of the party appealing be founded upon fact before 7 a nnclr r1 WOUld Say in a S'eueral way> they do ; but I would umenn tlLtl m ^ f86' because the applications were so- numerous that they seemed to go very hastily over them at the latter end. usual time \ vhiYb tl° ^ r 1 ^ sfuPPlementary valuation, they did not take the valued at 5T ; ^ former occasions ?- I think not, with houses