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FALCONER AND FITZHERBERT'S REPORTS.

ADJOURNMENT OF THE COMMITTEE. See COMMITTEE
refused on the death of one of the sitting members petitioned
against, when applied for to permit electors to come in and
defend the return, 151.

refused during the Easter holidays, 150, 151.

consideration of a vote adjourned to enable petitioners to call
additional witnesses, 553. See 389.

ADJOURNMENT. See REVISING BARRISTER'S COURT-POLLING.
ADMISSION. See STATEMENT.

AFFIDAVIT.

See CERTIFICATE-POLL-BOOKS.

is defective if made by two deponents, and omits to state, that
both were sworn, and that the magistrate who administered
the oath had authority to do so, 90.

parol evidence permitted to be given to supply the defects of the
jurat, 93.

affidavit signed "Edward Barry," and the name inserted by the
revising barrister "Edmund Barry," held sufficient, 338.
omission of the signature of a clerk of the peace to the certificate
of a voter, held not to affect the right to poll upon the
affidavit, 339.

held not to be invalid, though it omitted to state that the quali-
fication was of the yearly value of 10l., 625.

AGENCY. See BRIBERY.

facts held not sufficient to prove it, London, 660.

AGENT. See OBJECTION TO VOTERS-MESSENGER

EVIDENCE.

proof of a retainer held sufficient to destroy the vote of an at-
torney, 439.

how far the principal is bound by the statement of his agent, 521.
vote of a person employed as a carrier, though he employed a
deputy, held to be bad, 527.

ALIEN,

objection failed, 553.

ALMS-HOUSES,

Harper's Charity at Bedford, 435.

ATTORNEY, 200. See AGENT-OBJECTION TO VOTERS.
ATTORNEY GENERAL,

resolutions against his sitting in the house, 581, n.

the House will postpone the ballot when a notice has been given
by the agents of one of the petitioners that may have induced
the sitting members to delay the preparation of their defence,
88, 89.

BANKRUPT, 153, 158, 163, 277, 315.
BELL-RINGERS,

votes of bell-ringers held good, 534.
BRIBER,

objection to the vote of a party on account of having given a
bribe, entertained-but decision without argument afterwards
reversed, 408.

respecting votes procured by a party bribed to obtain them, 411, n.
BRIBERY. See COMMISSION.

to disqualify voters upon account of bribery, a promise of pay-
ment, or corrupt expectation must be proved, 204.

evidence will be received that will raise the presumption of a
corrupt expectation or promise of reward, 205.

recrimination in a case of bribery forbidden, the petition not
praying for the seat, 665, 666.

allegations of-Bristol, 661; Yarmouth, 663; Maidstone, 667.
agency required to be proved, 669.

charges of, 505, 668.

committee resolved, that they were to look to the statute law
and not to the resolution of 1677, for the definition of the
offence of bribery, 520, 535, see 676.

agency in a case of bribery held not to have been proved, Lon-
don, 660.

allegations of bribery held not to have been proved, 662.

CASE, conduct of. See CoUNSEL.

CERTIFICATE. See AFFIDAVIT.

erroneously stated the barony in which the qualification was
situated, the affidavit being correct, 59, 60.

a certificate which was itself dated but which did not contain any
mention of the date of registration, held good, 322.

CERTIFICATE-continued.

a certificate omitting to state the street, lane, &c. where the
qualification was situate, held good, 327.

CESS. See MUNICIPAL RATES.

CLAIM,

the committee would not question the decision of the revising
barrister on a claim without the production of the written

claim upon which he adjudicated, 311.

where a voter was placed upon the register in consequence of a
claim, the committee inquired into the objection to his vote,
without proof of an objection having been made before the
revising barrister, 434.

CLERK OF THE PELLS,

not disqualified to sit, 594, n.

COMMISSION TO EXAMINE WITNESSES,

objection respecting the list of barristers sent from Ireland to
the speaker, 619, 620.

notice of, Belfast case, 597.

evidence to support an application for a commission, 103, 617.
rehearing against the issue of a commission refused, 111.
limitation of the inquiries of the commissioners, 111, 621.
report to the house of the consent of the committee to issue
a commission, 119, 622.

effect of excluding charges of bribery from the inquiry of the
commissioners, 204.

issued, Westmeath (1827), 213, n.

refused, Galway (1827), 213, n.

issued, Westmeath (1838), 615, 618.

issued, Dublin, 101.

COMMITTEE,

the sheriff was not allowed to join in the striking of the com-
mittee, although the petition contained charges against him,
83, 87.

permit a rehearing, 128. See RE-HEARING.

quære, if a petitioner may continue a scrutiny after it becomes
impossible to unseat the sitting member, 259.

special report on refusing to open the Irish register, 260.
adjournment of a committee in consequence of the non-arrival of
witnesses on account of a fall of snow, 389.

member of a committee found to have voted at the election,

659, n.

applied to for an explanation of a resolution, 520.

See COUNSEL.

adjournment allowed to permit an instrument to be stamped,
objected to on account of being without a stamp, 291.

COMMITTEE―continued.

adjournment to enable poll-books to be produced, 572.
costs allowed, 574.

will explain the grounds of a decision, 173, 209, 643.

reasons of a decision explained by a member of a committee, 657.
chairman taken ill, before the case opened, and his attendance
excused, 607, n.

double strike permitted, though the charges against both the
sitting members general, but only one petitioner, 609, 610.
CONSTABLE. See OBJECTION TO VOTERS.

COSTS,

on the recovery of, Fector v. Beacon, 682, n.
COUNSEL, 115.

petition against two sitting members, counsel for each will be
heard, and two counsel for the petitioners, 101.

arguments of counsel excluded in cases where no general prin-
ciples or doubtful point of law were raised, 164.

interchange of names of voters whose cases are to be entered
upon, 221.

committee will not rigidly bind a party to conduct his case in
the order that he has notified to his opponent, 292.

permitted to conduct their case without the interference of the
committee, Dublin, 137, see K. & O. 305, 457. Belfast, 599.
Maidstone, 673. See Evesham, 531.

DEMAND.

See MUNICIPAL RATES.

proof of, in the case of Scot and Lot Voters, 370.

demand and refusal to pay the paving rate (Dublin) not necessary
in order to disqualify a voter on account of its non-payment, 126,
contra. 644.

necessary in the case of the Dublin Paving Tax, 644.
DENBIGH, STEWARD OF THe Lordship of,

not disqualified to sit, 595, n.

DEPUTY SHERIFF. See OBJECTION TO VOTERS.
DISQUALIFICATION OF A MEMBER,

a member unseated by the resolution of a former committee, on
a charge of bribery, held not to be disqualified to be re-
elected, 674.

DISTANCE,

the, seven miles from a borough, within which freemen must
reside, to be measured in a straight line, 395, 647, n.

DOUBLE STRIKE, 83, 87, 610. See COMMITTEE.
DRUNKENNESS,

of a voter, 695.

EASTER HOLIDAYS,

committee refused to adjourn, 150, 151, contrà, 151.
EVIDENCE. See POLL-BOOKS, STATEMENT, Rate.
poll-books of a former election, 44.

indentification of a voter on the register, 48, 52, 56.

objection paper received, though not signed, 55.

evidence not permitted to be given to contradict an entry of the
description of a voter on the poll-book, 58.

decision of the sheriff, in the case not before the committee,
rejected as evidence, 60, 61.

evidence of a sheriff, called as a witness, rejected on account of
his having been in the room, 61, 62.

declaration of a voter received in evidence, respecting a title to
lands to which the notice to produce title-deeds did not re-
late, 72, 73, 74.

parol evidence, to supply the defects of the jurat of an affi-
davit, 93.

production of the reasons of commissioners, for their rejection of
evidence cannot be insisted upon where the evidence rejected
is not offered to be read by the counsel for the sitting members,
on whose behalf it was tendered to the commissioners, 128.
the books of the collector, if required, to be put in with his
evidence, 141.

the party calling a witness, whose evidence he has excepted to
when tendered by his opponent, upon account of his having
come into the room during the examination of other witnesses,
accredits him by calling him, 134.

poll-books ought to be referred to in each case, 136.
checks produced before the commissioners in Ireland, and
returned by them as exhibits, a part of the evidence on which
the committee try the merits of the petition, 137.

books of a collector who was not examined, rejected, 137.

a voter held to be in arrears of a rate, though no rate nor any
warrant for its collection, proved, 180, 185.

a rate presumed to have been legally made, 196.

of the proceedings of a former election, 473, 474, 669.

printed copy of the register received, 261.

a petitioner who had not entered into recognizances, but who
had retained the agent for the petition, and who admitted that
he believed himself to be liable to pay the expenses of the
agent, examined, 331.

"registry-rejection book for the East-riding of the County of
Cork" received, 356.