Ireland] ELECTION. 63 Reports, 1837- 8— continued. Meagher, Daniel. ( Analysis of his Evidence)— continued. to the grand jury against the valuation, but for the remittance of taxes imposed under that valuation, 3601- 3647 Many persons who have been exempted from payin°- rates pay a rent cf 10/., 3648- 3651 Cases of Foley, Haley, and Leary, 3653- 3736 Examination as to the character of John Sullivan, who accompanied Mr. Young; perjury committed by him, 3737- 3766 Whether when a new registry takes place the inconveniences which occurred at the first will be experienced, 3767- 3776 Great improvement would be effected if the registry were annually revised, and took place before the recorder of Cork, 3777- 3780 There should be a right of appeal against improper admissions, as well as improper rejections, 3781. Great number in the Conservative interest who had no right to register; many of them voted at the last election, 3782- 3786 Freemen of Cork always considered a marketable commodity; supposed number of poor freemen in Cork ; since the Registry Act they are not so valuable in the market, 3787- 3802 Forty- shilling freeholders have very much decreased ; bribery was carried on amongst them formerly, 3805- 3807 The poor freemen are a very depraved order of the community ; they ought to be disfranchised, 3808- 3825 Persons registering in the liberties out of land are decidedly the best class of voters in Cork, 3830 Nature and extent of the influence exercised by Roman- catholic clergy previous to a contested election, 3830- 3854. The painting representing the massacre of Gourtrue, which was exhibited at the election in 1835, was done without the permission of the Liberal candidates, or their committee, 3855- 3865 Further evidence respecting the interference of priests at elections, 3866- 3876 No doubt that many cases have occurred in which voters have been- sent out of the town by their landlords to prevent their voting, 3877- 3891 Many of the Conservative party at the election of 1835 carried arms, and they were disarmed in open court. 3892- 3898 It is impossible to poll out the men in the booth " M," by reason of the obstructions raised in that particular booth ; nature of the obstructions, 3899- 3913 Advantage that would arise from having those letters in which there is a very large number of electors, divided, and arranged in districts, 3914- 3922 The present mode of registration tends to the creation of fictitious votes, 3923- 3925- [ Fourth Examination.]— Great majority of those appearing as marksmen were able to write; it was done to save time; the greater portion of the marksmen were forty- shilling freeholders, 4511- 4589. [ Fiftli Examination.]— Number of persons who voted at the last election of the various classes of freemen, freeholders and householders, distinguishing the number of each, 4608 List of persons, whose houses witness valued, who do not appear in the rate books, 4609, 4610 Great decrease in the number of forty- shilling freeholders since the election of 1812; they cannot be revived ; when they die the franchise dies with them, 4611- 4614 The number of freemen must always control the freeholders, the latter being a divided, and the former a concentrated force, 4617- 4619 The present forty- shilling freeholders are an improved class, since the Reform Bill, 4620- 4623. 4628. 4641- 4644 Whether any person appears on the register as a forty- shilling freeholder who had not the right previous to the Reform Biil, 4629- 4640 Many persons voted at the last election who were not upon the non- resident's certificates, but were non- resident at the time, 4647- 4650. Voters should be classed as householders, respectable freemen, forty- shilling free- holders, and the working portion of the freemen, 4651- 4654 Total number of persons exempted from local taxation by the grand jury in 1837 '•> gross amount of exemptions. & c., 4655- 4670 Nature and extent of the inquiries made by the grand jury previous to exempting parties from rates, 4671- 4679 Whether persons who are so poor as to be exempted from the payment of taxes should continue in the possession of the elective franchise, 4680- 4683. 4702 Further evidence respecting the grounds on which parties were exempted, 4684- 4701 Applications have been made to the grand jury for a new valuation of the county ; reason why they have not ordered it, 4703- 4712 Many of the persons that were exempted are widows, 4717- 4720—— List of persons from whom the collectors are unable to obtain the rates are laid before the grand jury at each assize, 4721- 4746. Persons exempted at one assizes are liable to be assessed at the next, 4748- 4755 Evidence respecting the admission of persons as honorary freemen since the Reform Bill; also of persons admitted to the freedom in right of apprenticeship, but who had not completed their full term of apprenticeship, 4756- 4856 Course of proceeding adopted by parties claiming to be admitted freemen in right of servitude, 4859- 4862. 4866- 4870 The corporation of Cork are not actuated by party views in the admis- sion of freemen, 4871- 4879 Further evidence relative to the admission of freemen, 4880- 4948' There are few applications for the freedom from persons claiming in right of servitude to attornies, 4932- 4934. [ Mr. Besnard,]— Explanation of the circumstances under which witness was made the bearer to the revising barristers of Baron Pennefather's decision on the right of non- resident freemen to register; and examination thereon, 4983- 4991. 643. h 4 [ Sixth