AN ELECTIONEERING BILL OF FORMER DAYS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 62, 4 July 1874, Page 12

AN ELECTIONEERING BILL OF FORMER DAYS.

Drove the contested election in Meath, some forty years a«o, Sic Mark Someryille sent orders to the- proprietor of the hotel in Trim t» board and lcdgo all that should wte for him, for which he received? B^oSSjlL^L 11 " gOt framed ' and U * tm ian « 9 * Somervill* •My Bra-To eating 16 freeholder, above Ss^r^Mark* at 3s «d a head is to me £2 12s. To eating 16 moTblw Jai« a^T two priests after supper is to me £2 15s 9d. To 6 beds in one room and 4 in another at 2 guuieas every bed, and not more thanfo™ £ any bed at the time cheap enough God knows is to me £22 15s T« 18.hor8esand5 mules about my yard all night at 13s every one of them and for a man winch was lost on the held of watching them all night is to me £5 ss. For breakfast on tay in the morninf for eveS one of them and as many more as the brought as near as fZ „„!." is to me £4. 125. To raw whiskey and punch* wfi£K3kL°3 SE and tobacco as well as for porter, and as well for breaking a pot ab?« stairs and other glasses and delf for the first day and ntaht I ™ 22 bu* for tWthree days a*d.a half of the election as litTa, I an 3 it and not be very exact it * all or thereabouts as I can guess and ««J to be too particular i 9i 9 to me at least £791559 d. For Zvin- ■ iS crapping off the head, of the 49 freeholders for six marks atTfi * every head of them by my brother has a Wote is to me £2 i£ i\L Forawomitand nurse for poor Tom Eernan in the middle of thl night when he was not expected is to me ten hogs. I dont tdt «f piper or for keepmghim sober as long as he was sober is to me £4 l Olt 2 15 0 0 22 15 0 0 Sigjed ! i 5 X 2 In the place of Jemmy Car* wife 4 12 0 0 2us "I It 5 ! -^ryan^M Garrat, £100 10 7 you may say £111 0 0 so your Honour Sir Marks send- me his eleven hundred by Bryan himself who- aod I pray, for success always m Trim and no more at present.' »u«.Bw