ELECTION EXPENSES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1932, Page 13 (Supplement)

ELECTION EXPENSES.

AN HOTEL BILL IN 1826.

IRISH HUMOUR IN FIGURES,

■When Sir Mark Somorvllle contested Heath (Ireland) in 1826 lie gave orders 'at the Trim Hotel that all who should vote for him should be lodged and boarded. After the election the following bill was handed to Sir Mark: To tenting 16 Freeholders £■ b. d. above etairs for Sir Mark, _ . at 3/3 per head, is to me... 212 0 To eating 15 more below stairs, and two priests after supper, is to me 2 15 9 To 18 horses and 5 mules about my yard all night, at 1 13/ every one of them, and for a man which was lost on the head of watching them all night, is to me .. 55. 0 To 6 beds in One room, and 4 in another, at 2 guineas ' every bed, and ' not more than 4 in a bed, at any time, cheap enough, God knows, is to me 22 15 0 For breakfast on Tay in the morfling, for every one of them, and as many more as they brought in, as near as I can guess, is to me .... 412 0 To Raw Whisky and !Puncb, without talking of pipes and tobacco, as well as for breaking a pot above stairs, and. other glasses and delph for the first day and night, I am not Very sure, but for the three days and a half of the Election, as little as I can call it, and to be very exact, it is in all or thereabouts, as near as I can guess, and not to be too particular, is to me at least 70 15i 9 For shaving and cropping off the heads of 49 Freeholders for Sir Mark, at 13d for every head of them, by my brother, who has a vote, is to me . 2 13 1 For a Womit and Nurse for poor Tom Karnon, in the middle of the night, when he was not expected, is to me ten Hogs, I don't talk j of the pipers for keeping him sober as long as he was sober, is to me £111 S 7 Signed in the place of Jenny Car' 3 wife, his mark, X, Bryan and Geraghty's mark, X. You may say fill, so, your honour, Sir Mark, send me this Eleven Hundred by Bryan himself, who and I prays for your success always in Trim, esq no more at present. _ i