SELECT COMMITTEE ON FICTITIOUS VOTES, IRELAND. 63/ <? Y ? Mr. James Lane. 1172. What is the total number of persons registered who are not valued at all — One hundred and nineteen. ~ _ 1173- What is the total number of persons who were valued in the supple- 19 February 1838. mentary valuation, but upon appeal were struck off ?— Fifty- five. Mr. John Colburn, called in ; and Examined. Cork. 74' Chainmn-] WHAT are you ? The clerk of the peace for the city of Mr. John Colburn . 1175. IIow long have you been clerk of the peace?— Since the year 1831. 1176. Have you brought with you the register of voters for the citv of Cork 5 — Yes. J 1177. And also documents by which you are enabled to state which of them voted at the several different elections since the Reform Bill ? Yes. 1178. Was a list given to you by Mr. Lane of persons appearing upon the city of Cork treasurer's books as exempt from the rates, and not valued ?— Yes. 1179. Have you prepared a statement showing whether those persons voted at the different elections, and in what years?— Yes, I have ( producing the same). 1180. Have you compared that statement with the documents in your posses- sion ?— I have. 1181. Will you deliver it in?— [ The Witness delivered in the same. Vide Appendix.] 1182. If Mr. Lane furnished you with a list of other parties, who may appear upon his books as inhabiting houses not valued at 10/., can you prepare a similar list with reference to those parties ?— Yes, I can, in the course of a few days. 1183. Mr. Beamish.'] Have you got your books in which the names of the non- resident freemen appear ?— I have. 1184. How many persons' names appear upon the registry altogether ?— 6,093. 1185. Does that include the non- resident freemen ?— It does. 1186. How many do they amount to?— I cannot answer that question exactly at this moment. 1187. Do they amount to 400 ?— I should suppose they did. 1188. Will you on Friday next hand in a list of the total number, and the names ?— I will endeavour to do so. 1189. Are you aware of any of the non- resident freemen having voted at any of the elections since the Reform Bill, and at what ?— Some of them voted at the last election. 1190. How many voted at the election of 1832 ?— I cannot say. 1191. Chairman.] Did a considerable number vote in 1832 ?— There did. 1192. Mr. Beamish.] Can you state whether as many as 300 of them voted at the election of 1835 ?— I cannot take upon me to say. 1193. Are you aware when the petition was presented to the House after the election, what number, if any, were struck off by order of the House of Com- mons p— I have that list here, with a copy of the order which I received, with the names inserted in it. [ The Witness produced the same.] 1194. IIow many names appear upon that list?— About 300. 1195. Were those names ever reinstated upon the register ?— They were. 1196. At what period ?— I received The Speaker's letter, dated 21st of April 18 35, ordering me to strike off those names, which I then obeyed, and I published a list of all the voters, without those names, up to the ist of January, which is the time for doin^ so ; when I met Mr. Martley, who was the revising barrister at Fermoy. I did not say anything to him upon the subject, having obeyed the order then. ^ 1197. Did you at anv subsequent period reinstate those names r- 1 did ; 011 the 2d of January 1837, at the Fermoy sessions, I showed Mr. Martley The Speaker's letter and the order that I had received, both of which he read, and said that he could not act under an English Act of Parliament. I produced a list with the names reinstated, which I then said I would publish ; and not receiving any directions to the contrary, when he said he could not act under an English Act ot Parliament, I did so; and at the sessions at Cork afterwards, in April 1837, in a conversation I had with Mr. Martley, he said he sanctioned my haying done so. ^ rr, ui- u: i;., f .,, 00 .^ rtov Mv IV fart lev s authority i— I con- 1198. Then your publishing the list was under Mr. Martley's authority: ceive so, under his sanction. 0.46. ! 4 " 99- Do