SELECT COMMITTEE ON FICTITIOUS VOTES, IRELAND. 203 11394. Who was the registering barrister?— I do not know exactly; I did not Mr. E. Rooneu. take any note of when he was registered at all; I have merely a note of his hold- ing 15 a. o r. 4. p. at 6 /. 7 s. 2 d. a year. 25 May 1838. 11395. That is all you have to say about it?— Yes. 11396. When was your attention particularly directed to Peter Clarke's case? — In February 1837, at the same time I valued the other holdings. 1 * 397- You are not aware that he was registered in 1836 ?— I am not. 11398. I think your evidence here is to show the inaccuracy in the evidence before the Committee of 1837 ?— No, it is not, except in some cases; there is no inaccuracy here ; he is proved to have 15 acres, at a rent of 6 I. 9 s. 2 d. 11399- That you consider an inaccuracy ?— No, I do not. 11400. And you valued this farm?— 1 did. 11401. How did you value it ?— By the acre, by looking over the land. 11402. And how many acres do you say are good?— I consider about four acres of the land are rocky pasture, and the remainder is tillage land, and worth 25 s. an acre. 11403. You put the average at 25 s. an acre ?— Yes. 11404. Although part of it is rocky land ?— Yes, only a part of it. 11405. How much of it ?— Four acres. 11406. And that you consider a fair rent?— Yes; and I am borne out in that by the circumstance of a freeholder who held land in the neighbourhood at the time I was valuing his farm, who was registered at the general register, holding only 20 acres, 6 acres of which are under rocky pasture ; that was a man of the name of Higgins, who, since registering, has set his land ; he was registered as a 20/. freeholder on the 5th April 1824; he held five acres more than Clarke, of the same description of land ; he has set his land since, and he is a 20 I. free- holder. 11407. You think, because his neighbour is a 20/. freeholder, holding 20 acres, this man, holding 15 acres, should be a 10/. freeholder?— I think he should be more. 11408. Have you looked at the evidence which was taken before the Longford Election Committee ?— I have ; it is lying before me now. 11409. Look at the top of page 271, and see whether the certificate of Clarke does not show that he was registered on the 4th of April 1 836 ?— I see it does, now. 11410. Mr. Lefroy.] I think you stated that you were not a landholder?— I stated I was not at present. 11411. And that you did not reside at present in the county of Longford?— No. 11412. That you had not resided there for some years past?— 1 stated, I believe, I had not resided there for about two years, but I had been there frequently. 11413. When you were there you were a pretty active partisan, I believe?— Yes, I was active, as most others were. 11414. As active as you could be ?— Yes, no question of it. 11415. Upon the Liberal interest, was it?— Yes. 11416. Your present residence is near Dublin?— Yes, my family reside there. 11417. You were brought from the neighbourhood of Dublin to be the valuator of lands at Longford, where you had not resided for two years?— No, I was living in Longford at the time I valued those lands. 11418. Were you living in Longford in February 1837 ?— Yes. 11419. I thought you said you had not lived there for two years?— I said about two years; I was about leaving it in February 1837. 11420. Is it near two years from February 1837 to this time?— No, it is not. 11421. Is that the accuracy of your evidence, that you state a transaction which took place in February 1837 was about two years ago?— About two years, I said; but I now state I was living in Longford at the time I valued those lands. 11422. How long had you been living there?— About 12 or 14 years, I think. 11423. Continually?— Yes. 11424. Up to the time you valued the land ?— Yes ; I might have been out of it, probably for a few months at a time, but that was all. 11425. Pray is this a correct answer to the question respecting your evidence, " I have been in Longford till within the last two years"?— I said about two years. 643 D D 2 11426. Is