§ The Parliamentary Elections Act, 1868.
§ and
§ The Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act, 1883.
§ We, the Honourable Lord M'Laren, and the Honourable Lord Kyllachy, two of the Judges of the Court of Session in Scotland, being two of the Judges for the time being for the trial of Election Petitions in Scotland, do hereby in pursuance of The Parliamentary Elections Act, 1868, and The Corrupt and Illegal Practices Act, 1883, certify that upon the 19th day of November, 1895, and following days, we duly 540 held a Court within the City of Elgin for the trial of, and did try, the Election Petition for the Counties of Elgin and Nairn, between James Hood, carpenter, Pilmuir, Forres, in the County of Elgin, and Andrew Gillanders, tailor, Aulearn, in the County of Nairn, Petitioners, and John Edward Gordon, of 61, Princes Gate, London, Respondent.
§ And, in further pursuance of said Acts, we certify:—
§ That, at the conclusion of the said trial, we determined that the said John Edward Gordon was duly elected and returned.
§ And whereas charges were made in the Petition of corrupt practices and illegal practices having been committed at the Election to which the Petition refers, we, in further pursuance of the said Acts, report:—
§ That upon the trial of the said Petition no corrupt practice or illegal practice was proved to have been committed at the said Election, and that there is no reason to believe that corrupt practices extensively prevailed at the said Election.
§ Given at Edinburgh this twenty-seventh day of November, Eighteen hundred and ninety-five years.
§ JOHN M'LAREN.
§ W. MACKINTOSH.
§ To the Right Honourable The Speaker of the House of Commons, Westminster.