§ Court of Session, First Division,
§ Edinburgh, 31st October 1895.
§ We, the Honble. Lord Adam and the Honble. Lord Stormonth Darling, being two of the Judges upon the Rota for the trial of Election Petitions, certify to the Right. Honorable the Speaker of the House of Commons that, at an Election Court held by us at Edinburgh upon the twenty-sixth day of October, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, we, on the motion of Robert Burn, 62, Blacket Place, Edinburgh, and Joseph Train Gray, publisher, 48, Minto Street, Edinburgh, petitioners in a petition against the Election of Robert Cox as Member of Parliament for the City of Edinburgh (South Division), granted leave to the said petitioners to withdraw their petition; and, no persons having appeared to adopt the petition, after due notice, we held the same withdrawn in terms of the statute; and we have further to report that, in our opinion, the withdrawal of the said petition was not the result of any corrupt arrangement, or in consideration of the withdrawal of any other petition.
§ Given under our band at Edinburgh this thirty-first day of October, eighteen hundred and ninety-five years,
§ JAMES ADAM.
§ MOIR E. STORMONTH DARLINE.
§ The Right Honourable William Court Gully, The Speaker of the House of Commons.