§ The Parliamentary Elections Act, 1868.
§ The Parliamentary Elections and Corrupt Practices Act, 1879.
§ Election for the Borough of Colchester, holden on the 31st day of March 1880.
§ In the Common Pleas Division of the High Court of Justice.
§ Between Thomas Moy, John Lay, Alfred Robert Staines, James Watson, William Mose-ley Tabrum, and Frederick Abraham Cole, Petitioners; and William Willis, Respondent.
§ To the Right Honourable
§ The Speaker of the House of Commons.
§ We, the Right Honourable Sir Robert Lush knight, and the Honourable Sir Henry Manisty, knight, Judges of the High Court of Justice, and two of the Judges for the time being for the trial of Election Petitions in England, do hereby, in pursuance of the said Acts, report to you that, on the twelfth day of June 1880, a summons came on to be heard before us in the matter of the above Petition on behalf of the Petitioners for liberty to withdraw such Petition; and upon hearing the Counsel for the Respondent and the Solicitor for the Petitioners, and upon reading the affidavits produced before us by and on behalf of the respective parties, and upon examining the agents for the Petitioners and Respondent respectively, we ordered that the Petitioners be at liberty to withdraw such Petition, and that they should pay to the Respondent his costs.
§ We also report that no person who might have been a Petitioner in respect of the said Election to which the said Petition relates has applied to be substituted for the above-named Petitioners.
§ We also report that, in our opinion, the withdrawal of such Petition was not the result of any corrupt arrangement, nor in consideration of the withdrawal of any other Petition. Dated this 14th day of June 1880.
§ ROBT. LUSH.
§ H. MANISTY.