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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 23, 22 January 1879, Page 2

Sometimes, m pouring over ancient mnnuitcripls, quaint documents flout to the surface. .hiH the queerest or" the queer \a the following, which purports to be a Hibernian electioiioerinsi hill of the la*t century, presented for' frefmi'e9 reivlere I and value received During the contested election m Meath, some forty years asjo, Sir Murk Stvnorvilln *ent or lers t o the proprietor of thehoM m Tri<n to board and lod^e all t hut. should rote for Inn, fop w'liuli he rewire 1 the following bill, which he got. framed, and i( still ban^s m Somen ille House, County Meath.— 'Mr Bll»t — To eatinof 16 freeholders above stair* for Sir Marks at 3* 6d n httid \9 to me £2 12s. To eating If? more below stair* and two priests after supper is to me £2 tos. 9cl. To 6 beds m one room nttd 4 m another at 2 g-iineas every bed, and not moie than four m any bed at the time, cheap enough Oo;l knows is to me £22 tos. To IS horses and 5 mules about my yard till night at I3s every one of them nnd for a man which was lost on the head of watching them rtil nijjht i? to m.c £o s*. For breakfast or* tar m the moaning foreww one of them and as many move as the hroujjht as jnear a* I can jjues i.« to me fi I2s. To raw whiskey and punnh without talking of pipes nnd tobacco as« well as for porter, and as glasses and delf for the first diiv and ni.'h.t. 1 am sure but for the three dVv« «nd a lijilf of the election us little ns I run 'mil it and not be very exa« it is all or t}iei-oa'»outs ft* % can gnos and not. to b? foo nartii'ular is to me at at leaist £79 Iss 9<l. For shavii'g and crapping off the heads of the 49 freeholders for six marks 13 for every head of the<n by my brother ha* a Wote is. to me £2 13s. id. For a womit and nurse for poor Tom EJernan m the middle of the night when he was not expected is to me ten hogs I dont t»lk of the piper or for keeping him sober us long a« he was sober is to; me £iO lO». The Total.: 2.12 0 0 1 s!is o o--2i 15' tt 0 i Signed 6 5 0 : 0' In place Jemmy o»ra wife 4 12 0 o; hi<. 70 15 0 7 Bryan V 4 Qarratj 2 13 0 1 Mark. 10 10 0 3 £100 10 7 you w»y kit £111 9n w> your Honour Rir Mark, »<?» dme thi^cK»i»ti hun dreel by Eir.n himself Who .v> J I priy«. for success always m Trim nnd n^> moro at present.