AN ELECTIONEERING BILL OF FORMER DAYS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 65, 6 July 1876, Page 2

AN ELECTIONEERING BILL OF FORMER DAYS.

During the contested election in Mi some fifty years ago, Sir Mark Soma sent orders to the proprietor of the 1 in Trim to board and lodge all that tV vote for him, for which he received following bill, which he got it still hangs in Somerville House, Cji Meath : " 16th April, 183 "My Bill,—To eatr'ng 16 freeM above stairs for Sir Marks at 3s 6dal is to me £2 ]2s. To eating 16 ram low stairs and two priests after supj to me £2 15s. 9d. To 6 beds iaonel and 4 in another at 2 and not more than four in sfiy bed «l time cheap enough God knows is it £22 15s. To 18 horses and 5 mulesi my yard all night at 13s every one of I and for a man which was lost on the! of watching them all night is to mei For breakfast" on 'tay in the morm, every one of them and as many ma they brought as near as I can guess ii I £4 12s. To raw whiskey and punch i out talking of pipes and tobacco asm for porter, and as well for breaking i above stairs and other glasses andM the first day and night I am sureW the three days and a half of the electM little as I can call it and not be very* it is all or thereabouts as I can gues not to be too particular is to me atl £79 15s 9d. For shaving and crappN the heads of the 49 freeholders fa marks at 13d for every head of thfanl? brother who has a Wote is to me £2l* For a womit and nurse for poor Tool nan in the middle of the night wks was' not expected* is to me ten h$ don't talk of the'piper or for keepif sober as long as he was sober is tome. lOs. The Total 2 12 0 0 2 15 0 0 Signed 22 15 0 0 In the place Jemmjl 5 5 0 0 wife 4 12 0 0 his 79 15 0 9 Bryan X Gam*; 2 13 0 1 Mark. 10 10 0 *3 £IOO 10 7d you may say £lll OOjoJ Honor Sir Marks send me this * hundred by Bryan himself who and If for success always in Trim and no v& present." . <