§ Several petitions complaining of undue elections and returns, being offered to be presented, it was resolved, "that whenever several petitions, complaining of undue elections or returns of members to serve in parliament, shall at the same time be offered to be presented, Mr. Speaker shall direct such petitions to be all of them delivered at the table; where they shall be classed, and read in the following order: viz. Such petitions as complain that no return has been made of a member or members to serve in parliament, in the first class. Such as complain of double returns, in the second class. Such as complain of the election or return of members returned to serve for two or more places, in the third class. Such as complain of returns only, in the fourth class. And the residue of the said petitions, in the fifth class.—And the names of the places to which such petitions (contained in the first class, if more than one) shall relate, shall, in the first place, be written on several pieces of paper of an equal size; and the same pieces of paper shall be then rolled up, and put by the clerk into a box or glass, and then publicly drawn by the clerk; and the said petitions shall be read in the order in which the said names shall be drawn; and then the like method shall be observed with respect to the several petitions contained in the second, third, fourth, and fifth classes, respectively."
§ Then several petitions were delivered in at the table accordingly; and the names of the places to which the said petitions related were put into the glass at the table, and drawn by the clerk in the following order; 1. Powey—petition of Alexander Glynn Campbell, esq.; also, a petition of Richard Cotton Mould, and other electors; to be taken into consideration on the 9th of February.—2. Cork County—petition of John Boyle, esq.; also, a petition of Richard Ronayne, and other electors; also, a petition of Emanuel Hutchins, a freeholder; to be taken 71 into consideration on the 23rd of February.—3. Leitrim County—petition of John Marcus Clements, esq.; also, a petition of Henry John Clements, a freeholder; also, a petition of the rev. John Leahy, a freeholder; to be taken into consideration on the 23rd of February.—4. Cork City—petition of Mountifort Longfield, esq.; also, a petition of Edward Roche and others, freemen and electors; to be taken into consideration on the 25th of February.—Camelford—petition of John Stewart, esq. and others; to be taken into consideration on the 9th of February.—6. Leominster—petition of electors; to be taken into consideration on the 11th of February.—7. Ever-sham—petition of Sir Charles Cockerell, bart.; to be taken into consideration on the 11th of February.—8. Limerick City—petition of Thomas Spring Rice, esq., to be taken into consideration on the 25th of February.—9. Drogheda—petition of James Gernon and others; to be taken into consideration on the 2nd of March.—10. Penryn—petition of John Lavicount Anderdon, esq., and others; to be taken into consideration on the 16th of February.—11. Wootton Bassett—petition of John Wray and Horace Twiss, esqrs.; to be taken into consideration on the 16th of February.—12. Inverkeithing, &c.—petition of the hon. Francis Ward Primrose; to be taken into consideration on the 18th of February.—13. Chester City—petition of Sir John Grey Egerton, bart., and John Williams, esq.; also, a petition of John Lowe and other voters; to be taken into consideration on February 18.