§ Mr. SPEAKER informed the House, that he had received from Mr. Baron Fitzgerald and Mr. Justice Barry, two of the Judges selected, in pursuance of the Parliamentary Elections Act, 1868, for the trial of Election Petitions, a Certificate and Report relating to the Election for the Borough of Athlone.
§ And the same was read, as followcth:—
§ The Parliamentary Elections Acts.
§ Election for the Borough of Athlone, holden on the 3rd day of April 1880.
§ The matter of a Petition relating to the above-named Election, wherein Edward Sheil is Petitioner and Sir John Ennis, baronet, is Respondent, was tried before us at Athlone on the 27th, 28th, 29th, and 31st days of May 1880, and at the conclusion of the trial on the last-mentioned day we determined, and do hereby certify to the Right honourable the Speaker of the House of Commons, that the said Sir John Ennis, the Member whose Election and Return was complained of, was duly elected and returned as Member to serve for the said Borough of Athlone.
§ Further we report that no corrupt practice was proved to have been committed by or with the knowledge and consent of either of the Candidates at said Election, and that we have no reason to believe that corrupt practices extensively prevailed at the Election to which the Petition relates.
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Dated this 1st day of June, 1880.
J. D. PITZGERALD, Baron of the Exchequer Division of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice in Ireland,
C. R. BARRY, Justice of the Queen's Bench Division of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice in Ireland,
Judges for the time being on the rota for the trial of Election Petitions in Ireland.
§ And the said Certificate and Report were ordered to be entered in the Journals of this House.