Ireland.] ELECTION. 73 Reports, 1837- 8— continued. QUALIFICATION— continued. 1. In Cork— continued. above their rent, Besnard 276- 282 Freedom is obtained by birth and servitude; no property qualification required, Besnard 285- 291 Each man should have a right to vote immediately after the registry, but should have been twelvemonths in possession before he registered, Besnard 6324. There are many persons that now vote for the city of Cork as householders that would not have a county qualification by transferring the rural voters from the liberty to the county at large, Besnard 6335- 6349 Great many of those appearing on the register are not possessed of the qualification out of which they registered, Meagher 2831,^ 2832 Great number in the Conservative interest, who had no right to register, registered, many of whom voted at the last election, Meagher 3782- 3786 Evidence respecting certain parties who appear on the register ; the situation of the property out of which they register witness is not acquainted with, Deeble 5262- 5352. 5378- 5457. 2. hi Longford: Number of electors objected to before the Committee on the Longford Petition in 1832, for want of a qualification in point of value, Courtenay 6520, 6521, 6524- 6526 The county cess collector, the rate collector or collectors should return upon oath their opinion of the value of each holding, or the fitness of it, to qualify a ten- pound voter ; the voter himself should not be tested as to the value of it, Courtenay 6818 The present ten- pound qualification, if properly viewed and acted upon, is a verv fair standard, Courtenay 6959- 6965 Great number of the persons upon the register for Longford who have not a bond fide qualification of lot.; grounds for that opinion, Courtenay 6966- 6976 There are many persons in Longford holding fifteen acres of land who have not a beneficial interest of 101., Courtenay 7026- 7031 Whether a person holding four acres of land, at three guineas per acre, would have a beneficial interest of 10 I. under the Irish Reform Act, Flood 8662- 8668. Several electors in the barony of Granard who had registered did not vote at the last election for Longford, in consequence of the lives in their leases having dropped ; there was nothing to prevent their voting except the qualification oath, Flood 9704- 9717. 9719> 9720. 9724- 973? Two persons came forward to vote at the election for Longford in 1836 who had lost their qualification; the one voted, the other did not, Nicholls 10389- 10391 Persons in the Conservative interest were placed on the regis- ter whose qualification did not appear to be so good as those that were rejected 011 the Liberal side, Ternan 10904- 10909 At the Longford registration in 1832, each person was called on to prove that he was qualified by the solvent tenant test, leaving the bene- ficial interest altogether out of the question, Rooney 11257, 11258 — The attempts made by the Liberal party to register persons having no qualification were very numerous, Fosbery 13097- 13101 Great many voters in the Liberal interest produced, as evidence of their title, their certificates as forty- shilling freeholders, previous to handing up then- leases, Fosbery 13099- 13101 More attempts made by the Liberal party than the Con- servatives in Longford to place bad votes on the registry, Fosbery 13112- 13115. See also Beneficial Interest. " Bucking." Fifty- pound Freeholders. Fosbery, Mr, Longford County. Oaths, 3. Perjury. Rates, I. Registration of Voters, II. 4. Re- registration of Voters. Stephenson, William. Quinnell, John. Nailer, Morley's- lane, Cork ; registered for Cork in November 183c-, Lane 894, Colburn 2059, 2060 He was valued in the supplementary valuation for two houses at 51.; appealed against the valuation; was struck out, and they have both been exempted since from taxation, Lane 894. 2058 Five pounds is the full value of his house, Young 2055- 2057 Registered in 1832, but never voted, Colburn 2059, 2060 Only voted in 1832, Meagher 3439. R. RATES ( CORK) : I. Generally. II. Exemption from Rates. 1. By whom allowed. 2. Class of Persons claiming Exemption. 3. Papers laid before the Committee. I. Generally : Rates should be paid before a given day to qualify persons to be placed 011 the registry, as in England, Besnard 6325 The payment of rates being made the test of right to vote, should be applicable to freemen as well as householders, Besnard 6377 Names of parish constables employed in making out returns to enable witness to make the applotment for the rates, Lane 952, 953. 643. k H. Exemption