IS MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN I5EFORE THE ,- gentlemen that^ ^ sons residing in the city of Cork , but hejona u j considerable ~ 1838> number* ^ diS^ i^ M S^ wledg, of tl/ e persons , ho alphabetically P- Yes. ! 284 You are obliged by law to give public notice of the persons who intend to apply to be registered at the different sessions r— Yes. 1285. And you make out the list alphabetically ?— Y es. 86. You do not distinguish them according- to the dis nc m wh. ch hey reside? No. I send copies of the notices served upon me to be punted, which I post'in the usual time required by the Act, previous to the sessions 1087. Do vou conceive that the law standing as it now does, not requiring a notice to specify the district, and not having the list made out with reference to the parishes and districts, tends to produce confusion and mischief at the registryr< — I cannot say that. , , 1288. Can you form no opinion upon that?— I have not made an observation upon it, so as to be capable to give an answer. 1289. As an intelligent professional man, conversant with sucti matters, in the nature of things, must it not produce confusion, and must it not make it more difficult for persons who are bound to check the persons that give notice, and whose duty it would be to investigate the qualification, and the bond Jides of their claim, not to have the list made out with reference to districts, but to have it made out alphabetically ?— I think that if they were made out with reference to parishes or districts it would be a great check. 1290. It would simplify the matter, and diminish the labour of the persons interested in investigating?— I should think so. 1291. Must it not also, upon the occasion of an election, throw great difficulty in the way of those who are to check the claimants to vote in the booths, the not having the lists made out with reference to the particular districts ?— I think, for the same cause, it would expedite the polling to have it made out in districts. 1292. Would it not simplify the duty of those who are to identify and check the parties ?— I think so. 1293. As the law stands, suppose there are 10 booths in the city of Cork, must not each candidate who is interested in keeping up a check against personation and fraud have persons connected with each parish or district in the countv to identify the persons ?— They ought. 1294. And it must multiply the expense manifold to the candidate ?— It must. 1295. Is that done now?— Each candidate has his agent and check- clerk, and there are individuals attending that know the persons that go to poll. 1296. Do you think it possible, in the nature of things, for each candidate to have at each of the 10 booths persons acquainted with every parish and locality throughout the whole circle of 20 miles round Cork ?— The booths are divided into letters, and they know the persons that poll under those letters, and they, of course, put persons that know them ; but I take for granted that the candidates and their friends acquire the best information they can. 1297 Are not the whole 6,093 whose names appear upon the iist divided among the TO booths, with reference merely to the alphabetical arrangement of their names and not with reference to any parochial or district arrangement ?— les ; but they are not put down alphabetically, because B and W and J be m one booth, so as not to make up more than a certain number in booth but it is arranged entirely with reference to the letters. ,; USVin0t therefore happen that persons would come from the dis antparts of the county of Cork to register in the same booth ?- Certainly. GJhfLl'rh W 10 hfe an eflectual check against personation and fraud, 1302. Would may in one most