§ MR. ARTHUR O'CONNORasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether it is a fact that, before the late election of a guardian in the Kilcomban Electoral Division of the Mountmellick Union, Mr. Mathew S. Cassan, a justice of the peace for the Queen's County, lodged a claim to vote out of property in the said Electoral Division; and, whether after the election, when the matter was investigated by the returning officer of the Union, attested copies of documents on the files of the Court of Lunacy were produced wherein the said Mathew S. Cassan declared that he had no right, title, or interest in the said property?
§ MR. TREVELYANThe Returning Officer reports that Mr. Cassan claimed to vote as owner and occupier of certain property. At the scrutiny of votes an objection was lodged as to Mr. Cassan's right to vote as owner; and in the course of the discussion some document connected with a lunacy matter in the Court of Chancery—the precise nature of which I am not informed of—was produced. The person who produced it did not leave it with the Returning Officer. The Returning Officer was not satisfied as to Mr. Cassan's right to vote as owner, and decided the legal point raised in this respect against him, but allowed him six votes as occupier.