§ MR. ALLISON (Cumberland, Eskdale)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in refer—once to the election for the electoral division of Hesket, in the county of Cumberland, what steps are necessary to be taken to allow inspection of the marked registers, after the County Council had formed its regulations, seeing that the marked registers and the counterfoil voting papers have been included in the same sealed packets contrary to the provisions of the Ballot Act, 1872?
§ MR. MATTHEWSI am advised that, inasmuch as the marked register has, in fact, been enclosed in the same sealed packet as the counterfoils of the voting papers, this packet cannot be opened even for the purpose of taking out the marked register without the order of the County Court Judge, to whom application should be made for that purpose. I beg to refer the hon. Member to the case of "Stowe v. Jolliffe" (9 L. R., C. P. 446).