§ MR. S. YOUNG (Cavan, E.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1) whether it is the practice to allow magistrates in Ireland, appointed pending an election for the clerkship of petty sessions in their district, to vote for any candidate at such election; (2) whether he is aware that there is now a vacancy in the petty sessions clerkship of Bailieborough, county Cavan; and (3) whether he will take 394 steps to prevent any magistrate appointed for that district, pending the election, from voting for any of the candidates for the office?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURThe practice is correctly stated in. the first Question. There is no power to prevent a magistrate from recording his vote at the election referred to, if he resides in the petty sessions district, or if, residing out of the district, he has complied with the regulations respecting attendances at petty sessions.