PARLIAMENTARY [^ Fictitious votes, Reports, 1837- 8— continued. VALUATION OF CORK— continued. III. Of the Liberties of Cork: There has been no valuation of the liberties since 1822, Lane 504- 509 Several complaints have been made of the valuation of the liberties ; the valuation is a very unfair one, Lane 514- 517 Tenements exempted from valuation, Lane 541. See also Cork. Ploughlands. Royal Arcade. Valuator 1. In Cork. 2. In Longford. 1. In Cork: By whom appointed ; they are sworn before the recorder ; they are paid by salaries, Lane 500- 503—— Copy of the appointment of valuators; it is signed by the foreman of the grand jury, Lane 542- 555 Powers of the valuators to enter premises as defined by 53 Geo. 3, s. 9, Lane (> 20- 622 There were no particular instructions given to the valuators in 1828, further than they should proceed to value all the houses fairly and relatively, Lane 4198- 4200. 2. In Longford : Those examined before the Committee of 1833 on the Longford Petition were prin- cipally persons who had been employed under the Tithe Composition Act; their valua- tions were made without any reference to elections, Gardiner 7420- 7423. See also Tithe Composition Act. Tithe Valuators. VALUE OF PREMISES, fyc.: 1. Generally. 2. In Longford. 3. Opinions as to the Tests to he applied for the purpose of ascertaining it. 1. Generally : Persons claiming the franchise frequently overstate the value of their holdings; they do not think that by that means they subject themselves to an increased rent; in Cork, Young 1469- 1476 In Longford, Courtenay 7008, 7009 There is no point in whicli surveyors differ so much in opinion as in valuing land ; surveyors brought up as witnesses generally go further than they ought for the party producing them, Battersby 14290- 14295 Any investigation of value must be more or less open to this difficulty, Battersby 14295 In valuing farms witness generally allows five per cent, for the wear and tear of stock of any description, Clogher 10268- 10273. 2. In Longford: In no case can the county cess he made a criterion of the real value of property, Courtenay 6853- 6859 Many of the claimants come forward under the impression that the actual value was what it was worth to the individual himself, Fosbery 13106 Repeated instances in which persons offer 10/. profit to a claimant, without any inten- tion of ever completing the offer, merely for the purpose of enabling him to swear that he has been offered that sum, & c., Battersby 14281- 14290 In'no instance could positive evidence be procured to contradict the claimant, though great pains was taken to procure such evidence, Julian 14789- 14804 The evidence produced by the oppos- ing party, as regarded the value of the claimant's land, & c. was of so vague and unsatis- factory a nature, that no judge could entertain it against the franchise, Daly 15346- 15368. Instances of persons being admitted to the register of Longford, who, on their own examination, could not prove that the land was worth more than the rent they paid for it, Gardiner 7936- 7959 Instances in which persons in the Conservative interest in King's County have refused to take the affidavit as to value after they have passed the assistant barrister, Kelly 14424- 14430. 14434- 14437 Instances of the admission of applicants to the register not possessed of the requisite qualification in point of value, Kelly 15045- 15060. 3. Opinions as to the Tests to be applied for the purpose of ascertaining it: Payment of rates should be the prima facie test of value, Besnard 6303- 6307 Sums produced by weekly lettings cannot be considered a fair criterion of the annual value Young 2639- 2645- Some other test of value besides the oath of the claimant and others is very necessary; it would be preferable to take the payment of the county cess as a test than the 10/. value, Fosbery 13106- 13110 The payment of county cess, though not