t/ o- Mr. John Colburn. 1372- 19 February 1838. Mr. John Young. MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE THE Mr. Beamish.] Was it generally reported as a common report r- I ^ Ts^^ Mr. Litton.] Did any other individual ever tell you that it was done?- 1 chairman.] Would you, as a professional man, allow any client of yours t0 acting as a registering barrister, permit such a mode of proceeding if you knew the man could write .- Indeed would not 1376 If you appeared as agent against a notice to be registered, would you not put it forward as an objection to the claim of the party his having signed as a marksman, if you knew that he could write his own name ?- If I was op- posed to the registry of that man I should think it my duty to do so i~ 77 Do not you think it would be a valid objection r— I think it ought to be. 1378 Mr Litton. 1 Do not you consider that it is a suggestion of falsehood for a man to'put his mark when he can write his name?— It looks very like it. 1 379. Would any respectable professional man himselt be party to a suggestion of falsehood ?— I do not conceive he would ; I am sure he ought not. 1380. Mr. Beamish.] Have you any reason to suppose that any of those signatures by marks were made by the parties with a view to commit a fraud ?— I do not conceive they were. If done at all, it was done for the purpose of expediting the registry. 1381. Are there not many persons, in the liberties particularly, who are not able to write, but who are very well- informed people otherwise, as country farmers?— I should suppose there are. 1382. And very well entitled under the Reform Bill to register their franchise? — So far as the 10/. qualification, I think so. 1383. Although they have not education enough to write ?— That may be. Mr. John Young, called in ; and Examined. 1384. Chairman.] WHAT are you ?— A shopkeeper on the Grand Parade, in the city of Cork. 1385. How long have you been resident in the city of Cork?— I was born there, and have resided there ever since. 1386. Mr. Serjeant Jackson.] Are you in possession of any houses and property in the city of Cork ?— I am. 1387. Are those houses situated in different parts of the town?— Indifferent parts of the town. 1388. Are you a judge of the value of houses?— I consider myself to be so. 1389. Have you tenants occupying the houses which you have let?— I have. 1390. At rents, in different parts of the town ?— At rents. 1391. Are your houses within the city of Cork, properly so called, or in the suburbs ? — In the city of Cork, properly so called. 1392. Do you consider yourself capable of estimating the value of houses, and that species of property?— I do. 1393- Were you one of the valuators in 1833?— I was. 1394- Were you employed by any persons for the purpose of valuing?— By the grand jury, in the summer assizes of 1832. 1395. What duty was devolved upon you by that appointment ?— We received the books from the treasurer of the valuation of 1828, and we were directed by the grand jury to g0 through the city with those books, and any houses that we tound not valued we were desired to value. Any houses that in your judgment, ought to be valued, but were not valued in 1828, you were desired to value?— We were JA9l? ldJ0U! di. rect! ons exJend not only to newly- built houses, but to houses - Anvhouse? h « I Im \ 828' ^ n0t induded inthe valuatio" of ^ at year ? boo^ w^ t0 bC Valued - did not find L the- ment ?- Weddid° U ^^ t0 ^^ y° UF duty in co » seq^ nce of that appoint- Uoo Durin" wCl1UaT T5 fourteen; two from each parish. posXutfourVX l6ngth ° f t, mC WCre - V° U em^ ed - that duty ? ?- I sup- 140.. What district were you appointed to ?- For the parish of Christchurch. 1402. That