. ,46 MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE THE M( , C W ,7. Who « re the persons who prided at that registration ? Mr. Moody, _ Mr. Willis, and Mr. Gahagan. . T, 7 February .838. , 8. Those geJ^^ f^ fe 0? the r'egistration T- I cannot say Jtl ££ bo| to booth ; it was ^ ° ne20t0 But you were in attendance upon the registration in one part or another during the whole of the business?- 1 do not say that I was there every moment of the dav; but I was there continually. n ... . 2 How was the business of registration conducted ; did those gentlemen sit together, or did they sit in separate booths ?- When the registration commenced they sat together, in order to lay down certain prmcip es upon which they should concur and all act upon. After the first day I think they then separated and each gentleman took a portion of the list of claimants and proceeded with it. 22 In what way did they arrange the registration ? Did they divide the entire list of claimants to register in any particular way, and how .<>— 1 he Irish Act requires that the notices of parties intending to claim a right to register shall be classed alphabetically, that is, that the persons in all rights, and from all places, shall be arranged according to the first letter m their respective surnames. Then each barrister took a certain number of those initial letters, and proceeded \ vith the persons whose names were in that portion of the list. 23. Then the list that was made out of the claimants to register had not any reference to the respective rights in which they came to register, nor to the localities in which their qualifications were situated ?—- None. 24. But the arrangement of the list was merely with regard to the alpha- betical order of the names ?— Entirely. 25. What was the number of persons who were claimants to register for the city of Cork ?— There were above 8,600. 26. Then each of those gentlemen had between 2,000 and 3,000 to register? -— In one letter alone there were above 1,000, in letter M. 27. The borough of Cork, for the purposes of election, consists of the city of Cork proper, the suburbs, and the liberties?— Yes ; it comprehends the county of the city of Cork. Under the Boundary Act, the city of Cork is made co- extensive with the county of the city of Cork, and it contains, first, the city, that portion 011 which continuous buildings are; it then contains the suburbs, which is a certain portion of land outside the city, which, for local taxation, has been defined the suburbs. I think I may be better able to explain this by means of a map of the county of the city, which 1 have here ( producing the same). The city is that part marked dark in the centre. 28. Chairman.] What is that enclosed within the yellow lines ? Those are the lines which include the suburbs. 29. What is that within the exterior red lines?— The whole city; according to the Boundary Act, the whole of what is in the map is in the city of Cork ° 30. Mr. Serjeant Jackson.] Then the city of Cork, properly so called, is the dark part, the suburbs are those included within the yellow line, and the residue ( rfthe space inclosed within that reddish line is the county of the city of Cork ? as a limit wllat llad been the limit of the 32. Can you inform the Committee what may be the extent of the area their report. ™ P Whlch the B » <"> dary Commissioners attached to w& tey^ aCreSthere ^ bc comprehended 34. And the cire'. e ™ taS^^ Kot^ * » ont UO, of varies * » « 37- A