HC Deb 02 July 1906 vol 159 cc1368-9
Mr. SPEAKER

informed the House that he had received from the Judges appointed to try the several Election, Petitions the following Certificate and Report relating to the Election for the Attercliffe Division of the City of Sheffield:

In the High Court of Justice, King's-Bench Division.

The Parliamentary Elections Act, 1868, and The Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Acts, 1883 and 1895.

The Election for the Attercliffe-Division of the City of Sheffield, holden on the 15th day of January, 1906.

To the Right Honourable The Speaker of the House of Commons.

We, Sir William Grantham, Knight, and Sir Joseph Walton, Knight, Judges of the High Court of Justice, and two of the Judges on the Rota for the time being for the Trial of Election Petitions in. England and Wales, do hereby Certify in pursuance of the said Acts that upon the 25th and 26th days of June of this year we duly held a Court at the Town Hall, Sheffield, for the Trial of and did try the Election Petition for the Attercliffe-Division of the City of Sheffield, between. Arnold Muir Wilson, Petitioner, and Batty Langley, Respondent. And in further pursuance of the said Acts We-Certify that at the conclusion of the said, trial We determined that the said Batty Langley, being the Member whose Election and Return were complained of in the said Petition, was duly elected and returned, and that his Election was not void, and We do hereby Certify such our determination to you.

And whereas charges were made in the said Petition that the illegal practices therein specified had been committed in reference to the said Election, We, in further pursuance of the said Acts, Report as follows:—

  1. 1. That no illegal practice was proved to have been committed by, or with the knowledge and consent of, the said Batty Langley.
  2. 2. That no persons were proved to have been guilty of any illegal practices.
  3. 3. That there is no reason to believe that illegal practices have extensively prevailed at the said election.
  4. 4. That the said Batty Langley was not proved to have been guilty by his Agents of any illegal practice.

WM. GRANTHAM.

JOSEPH LAWSON.

Dated this 28th day of June, 1906.

And the said Certificate and Report from Mr. Justice Grantham and Mr. Justice Walton, Judges of the High Court of Justice, were ordered to be entered in the Journals of this House.

Copy of Shorthand Writer's Notes of Judgment and Evidence laid upon the Table by Mr. Speaker.