§ Writs and Returns showing that Frederick Oliver Baron Ashtown, and Arthur Kenlis Baron Farnham, had received an equal number of votes in the recent election of a Representative Peer for Ireland in the room of the late Earl of Rosse, deceased, with the Certificate of the Clerk of the Crown in Ireland annexed thereto; delivered (on oath), and Certificate read.
§ THE LORD CHANCELLOR (Lord LOREBURN)My Lords, the Act of Union prescribes that whenever by reason of an equality of votes in the election of a Lord Temporal of Ireland to sit in the Parliament of the United Kingdom the complete election shall not be made, the names of those Peers for whom such equality of votes shall have been so given shall be written on separate pieces of paper, and put into a glass by the Clerk of the Paliaments at the Table of the House of Lords while the House is sitting, and the Peer whose name shall be first drawn by the Clerk of the Parliaments shall be deemed to be elected. That describes the procedure which will now be followed.
Then in pursuance of the provisions of 39 and 40 Geo. III. c. 67, the names of the said Peers were written on pieces of paper of a similar form and put into a glass by the Clerk of the Parliaments, and the name of the Lord Ashtown having been first drawn out by the Clerk of the Parliaments, he was declared to be duly elected.