/ S E L E C T C O M M I T T E E O N F I C T I T I O U S V O T E S , I R E L A N D. 193 / 11157. You stated that there are four or five Liberal magistrates in the county; Mr. James Ternan. how are they circumstanced as to property ?— There are some of them whose landed property is not much; but I dare say they are worth 300 I. or 400 I. 22 Ma? l838- a year from other means. 11158. There is no Liberal magistrate in the county that has not 300/. or 400/. a year?— I do not think there is any under that; I do not say that they have landed property to that amount. 11159. Mr. O'Connell.] Are there any Liberal magistrates of a higher scale? •— There are. 11160. Mr. Lefroy.] What is the highest?— There are some whose interest in lands exceeds 600 I. or 700 l. a year. 11161. Mr. O' Connell You said that there were speeches made that would inflame the people against particular individuals ; do you mean to say that there were any speeches encouraging the people to commit violence or outrage upon any individual ?— I did not say that there were speeches made that would inflame the people; I said that there were exciting speeches made. 11162. Do you mean at all to say that there were speeches calculated to make the people commit violence ?— Certainly not. 11163. The usual political speeches, exciting the people against the line of politics of the individual ?— The usual electioneering speeches that we hear and read of every day. 11164. Are you a professional person ?— No. Mr. Edward Rooney, called in ; and Examined. 11165. Chairman.'] WHAT are you ?— I have been a landholder; at present I am living privately in the neighbourhood of Dublin. I have been in Longford till within the last two years. 11166. Were you ever resident in Longford ?— I was. 11167. When did you quit the county of Longford ?— About two years since. 11168. And since that you have been residing in Dublin ?— I have. 11169. Mr. Curry.'] Did you attend the registry in 1832 for the county of Longford ?— I did. 11170. What part of the county did you attend the registry at principally ?— At Eallymahon. 11171. Since 1832 have you been in the habit of attending the various registries that have taken place for the county of Longford ?— Yes. 11172. Did you at any time take notes of the proceedings at the registry for that county ?— I did. 11173. When did you first begin to take notes?— In October 1836. 11174. Though you did not take notes at the registry of 1832, did you attend regularly at Ballymahon during that registry ?— 1 did at the Ballymahon divi- sion. 11175. Who was the gentleman that presided there as the registering bar- rister ?— Mr. Fosberry. 11176. Did Mr. Dogherty sit at Ballymahon at all?— He did not. ii 177. Did the counsel and agents attend on both sides, as well on the Liberal as on the Conservative side, at Ballymahon, during the registry of 1832? -— With the exception of two days, or probably more. 11178. Were the claims of the several persons coming up to be registered entered into with minuteness and strictness ?— Very great strictness, I thought. 11179. Was there the same strictness and the same scrutiny with respect to persons that came up to be registered on the Conservative side that there was with respect to the qualification of persons coming up to be registered on the Liberal side ?— In the commencement there was, with this difference, that the agents and the counsel upon our side did not wish to go so much against the interest of the freeholder as the counsel upon the other side with regard to value. 11180. The counsel and agents on the Liberal side were more disposed to admit persons to be registered ?— Just so. 11181. From your observation of what occurred at Ballymahon, do you think that any, and if any, many, fictitious votes could have been put upon the register of the county of Longford at the registry sessions of 1832 ?— I do not think there 643. c c Mr. E. Rooney.