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[Report on the Carrickfergus Election Petition, 1833]
Select Committee
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Hardback. [Report from the Select Committee on the Carrickfergus Election Petition: with the Minutes of Proceedings and the Evidence taken before them.] Mr. O’Connell, from the Select Committee appointed to try and determine the merits of the Petition of the there undersigned Freeholders, Leaseholders and Householders of the Town and County of the Town of Carrickfergus, in Ireland, Electors who had a right to vote at the last election of a member to serve in this present Parliament for the said town of Carrickfergus, and who therein and thereby claim to have had such a right, complaining of an undue election and return for the said town and county, informed The House, that the said Committee had determined;- That Conway Richard Dobbs, Esq. Is not duly elected Burgess to serve in the present Parliament for the Town and County of the Town of Carrickfergus. – That the last Election for the Town and County of the Town of Carrickfergus is a void election. –That the Petition of the said Freeholders, Leaseholders and Householders, does not appear to the said committee to be frivolous or vexatious. Mr. O’Connell also informed The House, that the said Select Committee had come to the following resolutions, which they had directed him to report to The House: -That the most gross and scandalous bribery appears to have prevailed on both sides at the late election for the Town and County of the Town of Carrickfergus; and that although it does not appear that the said Conway Richard Dobbs, Esquire, did personally take any part in such bribery, yet that his return was procured by his agents and friends by bribery. –That a great proportion of the constituency, composed of freemen of the Corporation, have been influenced solely by bribery in giving their votes at the late election; and it appears to the committee that similar corrupt practices have prevailed Elections for the said Town and County of the Town of Carrickfergus. –That the committee beg leave to submit to the most serious attention of The House the evidence of gross bribery and corruption which appears upon the Minutes of Evidence. –That great expense has been occasioned to the Parties by the delay in the production of certain documents which were required in the progress of the Petitioner’s case; and that the Committee would also beg to direct the attention of The House to the facts which appear upon the Minutes of Evidence on that subject. Carrickfergus Election Committee: Daniel O’Connell, Esq., James Henry Callender, Esq., John Madocks, Esq., Henry Aglionby, Esq., Sir Edward Dolman Scott, Baronet, The Honourable Pierce Butler, Sampson Stawell, Esq., Fitzstephen French, Esq., William Lewis Salusbury Trelawney, Esq., Morgan O’Connell, Esq., Leonard Dobbin, Esq. 102pp. Disbound, housed in a protective file
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Hardback
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Alexander Thom & Sons Dublin
Publication date
1833
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KON0822957
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