§ MR. BIGGARasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether, notwithstanding the fact that the Local Government Board have decided that Mr. Richard Clarke, the candidate declared by the clerk of the Bailieborough Union to be duly elected for the Carngarree Electoral Division, at the late election, did not receive a majority of valid votes, they still refused to substitute for him Mr. Patrick Clarke (the old guardian), the other candidate, who did obtain a majority of valid votes, and decided instead to put the division to the expense and inconvenience of a new election?
§ MR. TREVELYANThe return of the candidate who had been declared elected, having been set aside by the Local Government Board, they adopted the only legal course open to them in ordering a new election to fill the vacancy thereby caused.