HL Deb 21 March 1848 vol 97 c846
The EARL of EGLINTOUN

reminded their Lordships that an Act had passed last Session for the purpose of correcting certain abuses that had taken place at the election of the Representative Peers of Scotland. At the last election, which took place at Holyrood House, on the 8th of September, a person attended and proposed to give his vote under the title of Lord Colville of Ochiltree. That vote was protested against, pursuant to the Act of Parliament, by several Peers present, and he now begged to move that the individual who had so tendered his vote be required to establish his claim before the House, and that a notice be served upon him to attend before their Lordships for that purpose, on Tuesday, the 11th of Aprill next.

Agreed to.

House adjourned.

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