The Speaker's Warrant for the Production of any private Books, or Papers, as described in the Warrant, and compelling the Attendance of the Persons to whom the Warrant is directed. WHEREAS, &c. [as before]. These are therefore to require you, and each and every of you, to bring in your custody, [description of papers required], and with them to be and appear at the bar of the house of commons, on, &c. [as in the first form (a)]. (a) When no committee has been chosen in the day appointed for taking the petition into consideration, the preamble of the warrant runs thus: "Whereas, by an order of the house of commons, the matter of the petition of complaining of an undue election and return, for the was appointed to be taken into consideration by the said house, upon the day of at of the clock in the afternoon. And whereas the said order : therefore to re hath, from time to time, been The select committee, when appointed, is empowered to send for persons, papers, and records. See 10 Geo. 3. c. 16. § 18, ante, ccccvi. Persons tam. pering with witnesses, or endeavouring to deter them from giving The following Resolutions are repeated at the Resolved, THAT if it shall appear that any person hath been tampering with any witness, in respect of his evidence to be given to the house, or any committee thereof, or directly or evidence, de- indirectly hath endeavoured to deter or hinder misdemeanor, any person from appearing or giving evidence, the same is declared to be a high crime and misdemeanor, and this house will proceed with the utmost severity against such offender. clared guilty of &c. Falseevidence. Resolved, That if it shall appear that any person hath given false evidence in any case before this house, or any committee thereof, this house will proceed with the utmost severity against such offender. 16 Jan. 1735. Ordered, That the counsel at the bar of this house, or before the committee of privileges and elections, be restrained from offering evidence touching the legality of votes for members to serve in parliament for any county, shire, city, borough, cinque port, or place, contrary to the last determination in the house of commons, which determination, by an act passed in the second year of his present majesty's reign, intituled, An act for the more effectual preventing bribery and corruption in the election of members to serve in parliament, is made final to all intents and purposes whatsoever, any usage to the contrary notwithstanding. 26 February, 1735. Resolved, That the counsel for the petitioners be admitted to give parole evidence as to a person being no freeholder at the time of the election, who swore himself then to be a freeholder (a). 2 March, 1735. Resolved, That the counsel for the petitioners be admitted to give evidence to what a voter confessed of his having no freehold, who at the time of the election swore he had. 22 Journ. 498. 22 Journ. 593. 22 Journ. 604. Notice of an Application by the Petitioner for a Commission to examine Evidence in Ireland, to be given under the 42 Geo. 3. c. 106. § 4 and 5, as soon as Petition presented (b). You are hereby required to take notice, that inasmuch as, from the nature of the case, and (a) This, and the following resolution, in fact, superseded that of the 16th January, 1695, that evidence ought not to be admitted to disqualify an elector as no freeholder, who at the election swore himself to be so. 11 Journ. 394. (6) The petitioner should be prepared to prove this no number of witnesses to be examined relative to the allegations in my petition to the house of commons, complaining of your undue election and return as a member to serve in parliament for in that part of the united kingdom called Ireland, the allegations in the said petition cannot be effectually inquired into before the select committee of the house of commons, which shall be appointed for the trial and determination of the merits of my said petition, without great inconvenience and expence to the parties; it is my intention to apply to the said committee, to make an order for the nomination and appointment of commissioners, in the manner directed by an act of parliament made in the forty-second year of his present majesty, intituled, An act for regulating the trial of controverted elections or returns of members to serve in the united parliament for Ireland. Dated this day of To, &c.. 1806. J. L. Order of Select Committee upon an Irish Petition, for the Appointment of Commissioners to take Evidence in Ireland (a). AT a select committee of the house of commons of the united kingdom of Great Britain (a) Sec 42 Geo. 3. c. 106. § 4, &c. 1 Peck. 249. and Ireland, appointed to try and determine the merits of the petition of William Conyngham Plunket, esq. complaining of an undue election and return for the college and university of the holy and undivided Trinity, near Dublin, Whereas the parties before this committee have made application to the said committee to make an order for the nomination and appointment of commissioners, for the purpose of examining witnesses relative to certain allegations in the said petition; And whereas it, also appears to the said committee, from the nature of the case, and the number of witnesses to be examined relative to the said allegations, that the same cannot effectually be inquired into before the said committee without great expence and inconvenience to the parties; Ordered, That the commissioners be nominated and appointed for the purpose of examining evidence respecting the several matters and things hereinafter mentioned, viz. Whether the said college and university are, by a certain charter or charters to them granted, distinct corporate bodies, consisting of different members: Whether they have distinct officers, and whether the purposes for which they meet, as well as their place of meeting, are likewise dis tinct: Whether there is a certain accustomed mode and form by which alone persons can be admitted members of the said college: Whether the said George Knor was not, or is not, a member of the said college and university: Whether ever since the granting of the said |