§ The Parliamentary Elections Act, 1868. Election for the County of Dumbarton.
§ Unto the Eight Honourable The Speaker of the House of Commons.
§ Report by the Election Judges in Scotland on the Petition of John William Burns, of Kilmahew Castle, Cardross, Advocate, complaining of the Election, on sixth April 1880, of Archibald Orr Ewing as Member of Parliament for the County of Dumbarton. We, Robert Macfarlane, Lord Ormidale, and John Millar, Lord Craighill, the two Judges of the Court of Session for the trial of Election Petitions in Scotland, do report as follows:—
§ Leave has been given to withdraw the above Petition upon evidence by affidavits having been laid before us to the effect that such withdrawal was not the result of any corrupt arrangement, and no person, after the requisite intimation and publication, applying to be substituted as Petitioner.
§ R. MACFARLANE,
§ Lord Ormidale.
§ JOHN MILLAR,
§ Lord Craighill.
§ Edinburgh, 23 June, 1880.
§ And the said Certificates and Reports were ordered to be entered in the Journals of this House.