§ Mr. SPEAKER informed the House, that he had received from Mr. Baron Pollock and Mr. Justice Hawkins, two of the Judges selected, in pursuance of The Parliamentary Elections Act, 1868, for the Trial of Election Petitions, a Certificate and Report relating to the Election for the Borough of Tewkesbury.
§ And the same were read, as followeth:—
§ TEWKESBURY ELECTION.
§ Westminster Hall,
§ June 28th, 1880.
§ We, Sir Charles Edward Pollock, knight, one of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer, and Sir Henry Hawkins, knight, one of the Justices of the High Court of Justice, two of the Judges for the time being for the trial of Election Petitions in England, do hereby, in pursuance of The Parliamentary Elections Act, 1868, and The Parliamentary Elections and Corrupt Practices Act, 1880, certify that upon the 17th day of June instant (1880), and the day following, we duly held a Court at Gloucester, in the county of Gloucester, for the trial of, and did try, the Election Petition for the Borough of Tewkesbury, in the said County of Gloucester, between Thomas Collins, Henry Browett, Frederick Blanchard Sellors, and George Allard, Petitioners; and William Edwin Price, Respondent.
§ And, in further pursuance of the said Acts, We certify that at the conclusion of the said trial we determined that the said William Edwin Price, being the Member whose Election and Return were complained of in the said Petition, was not duly elected and returned, and we do hereby certify in writing such our determination to you.
§ 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 as follows:—
§ That no corrupt practice was proved to have been committed by or with the consent or knowledge of either of the Candidates at the said Election.
§ And we further report, in pursuance of the said Acts, that upon the trial of the said Petition the persons who were proved to have been 1118 guilty of corrupt practices are: — Ebeaezer Lugg, Samuel Jones, and Alfred Ricketts.
§ And, in further pursuance of the said Acts, we report that on the evidence before us, to which we have strictly confined our attention, we have no reason to believe that corrupt practices extensively prevailed at the Election to which the Petition relates.
§ C. E. POLLOCK.
§ H. HAWKINS.
§ To the Right Honble.
§ The Speaker of the House of Commons.
§ And the said Certificate and Report were ordered to be entered in the Journals of this House.