§ MR. SPEAKERinformed the House, that he had received from the Honourable George Denman and Sir William Ventris Field, two of the Judges selected for the Trial of Election Petitions, a Certificate and Report relating to the Election for the Stepney Division of the Borough of Tower Hamlets, and the same were read as follows:—
We, George Denman and William Ventris Field, being two of the Judges upon the rota for the trial of Parliamentary Election Petitions, having tried a Petition wherein Frederick Wootton Isaacson was the Petitioner and John Charles Durant the Respondent, and in which the said Petitioner claimed to be declared to have been elected by a majority of legal votes at the last Election for the Stepney Division of the Borough of the Tower Hamlets, hereby certify and report as follows:—
- 1. We certify that, at the conclusion of the Trial, we determined that the said John Charles Durant was duly returned and elected.
- 2. We report that no charge was made in the said Petition of any corrupt or illegal practice having been committed at the said Election.
§ In witness whereof we subscribe our names this 12th day of April, A.D. 1886.
§ GEORGE DENMAN.
§ WILLIAM V. FIELD.
§ And the said Certificate and Report were ordered to be entered in the Journals of this House.