§ Parliamentary Elections Act, 1868.
§ To The Rt. Honble.
§ The Speaker of the House of Commons.
§ We, the Honble. George Denman, and Sir Henry Lopes, knt., Judges for the trial of Election Petitions in England, do hereby, in pursuance of the said Act, certify that upon the 21st day of June 1880, and the following day, we held a Court at Macclesfield for the trial of, and did try, the Election Petition for the Borough of Macclesfield, between Isaac Day, Charles Shaw, James Gayes, and Edward Fairhurst, Petitioners; and William Coare Brocklehurst and David Chadwick, Respondents.
§ And, in further pursuance of the said Act, We certify that we determined that the said Respondents were not duly elected and returned, and that the said Election is void.
§ And we hereby certify in writing such our determination to you.
834§ And whereas charges were made in the said Petition of corrupt practices having been committed at the said Election, we, in further pursuance of the said Act, report in writing to you as follows:—
- 1. That no corrupt practice was proved to have been committed by or with the knowledge or consent of any Candidate at the said Election.
- 2. That the following persons were proved at the trial to have been guilty of corrupt practices at the said Election: —John Baker, William Johnson, William Smale.
- 3. That we have reason to believe that corrupt practices extensively prevailed at the Election to which the said Petition relates.
§ GEORGE DENMAN.
§ HENRY C. LOPES.
§ Bewdley,
§ June 23rd 1880.
§ And the said Certificate and Report were ordered to be entered in the Journals of this House.