- Assessments.
- Church Cess only.
- Number of
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£.10 Houses.
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- Numbers of Voters
- qualified by occupation, 350
- .
- Persons who pay
- Annual Rent to the
- full value of their
- Houses, 230.
- Freeholders registered
- for the County for pro-
- perty in the Town, 67; of whom Non-resi-dent, 19.
- Burgesses resident
- and non-resident.
- Probable
Constituency.
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-
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Suburb
of Graigue.
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4. - There are no local Assessments, except for Church Cess,
which is raised
-
on an applotment corrected from time to time. The number of
Houses assessed
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is 883, and the sum raised in 1830 was £.107.10. From this
applotment the
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number of Houses of the annual value of £. 10 or upwards, would
appear to
-
be 345.
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The same are stated to be only 304, in a return sent to the
Chief Secretary
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By the Sovereign, on the 25th
June 1831.
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We
have, however, reason to believe that the real number exceeds
what it
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would appear to be by either of these documents.
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By an enumeration that we caused to be made, we found the
number of
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slated Houses, with more than 7 windows, to be 330; and,
though rents are
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low in the Town, we conclude that all these must be of the
annual value of
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£. 10 or upwards. Of Houses slated, but with less than 7
windows, we found
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634, of which we would not take above one in ten to be worth
more than £. 10
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per annum, or likely to be raised to that sum. We also found
about 10 Houses
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thatched, which we considered worth £. 10 and 360 thatched
Houses under that
-
sum. The £. 10 Houses will therefore be, by our own
calculation, 403.
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5. – But these 403 qualifying Houses will not yield an equal
number of
-
qualified Occupiers; for we have to deduct, 1st, for
unoccupied Houses, of which
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there will be always some; 2dly, for Houses occupied by
Females; 3dly, for
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Houses occupied by disqualified Persons, (Excisemen, &c.); and
lastly, for cases
-
where two or more Houses are occupied by the same individual;
and, taking all
-
these at 53, do not reckon on the 403 qualifying Houses
furnishing more than
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350 qualified Occupiers.
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6. – Of these qualified Occupiers about 230 will be Persons
paying annual
-
rent to their immediate Landlords to the full value of their
Houses, and about
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120 Persons who having their Houses either on Leases for which
they have paid a
-
fine, or on Building Leases, do not pay annual rent to the
amount for which their
-
houses might be let.. There are, as far as we could learn, no
Persons in the Town
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living in Houses of which they have the Fee-simple. The Fee of
the whole of the
-
land (or very nearly the whole) on which the Town is built, is
in the possession
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of two gentlemen of the name of Hamilton; but the land is let
on such long
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Leases, and there are generally so many Persons between them
and the actual
-
Occupiers, that they are not considered to posses any influence
of consequence
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over the body of the Householders. Lord Charleville possesses
no property
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whatever in the Town.
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7. – There are registered for the County, in right of Property
within the
-
Limits that we shall presently propose, 67 Freeholders; and of
them 48 are
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Resident Householders.
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Of the Burgesses who have at present exclusively the Right of
Voting at
-
Elections, 2 are resident Householders, 3 are resident within 7
miles, and 8 are
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non – residents.
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8. - Our probable Constituency, after the passing of the
Reform Bill, will
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therefore stand thus:
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Householders paying annual rent to the full value of their
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Houses - - - - - - -
- - - 190
-
Householders of £. 10 and upwards, but not paying rent to the
-
full value of their Holdings - - - -
- - 120
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Holders of Houses and Land jointly worth £. 10 -
- - - 40
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Burgesses, not Householders, but resident within 7 miles
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- 3
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Probable Total Number of Voters - - - - -
353
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9. - We have in the above calculation included only the Town
of Carlow, pro-
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perly so called, on the left bank of the Barrow; but we have
mentioned (Par. 1.)
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that there is a Suburb called Graigue, in the Parish of
Killishane, which, though
in
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