AN ELECTIONEERING BILL OF FORMER DAYS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 406, 7 November 1874, Page 6

AN ELECTIONEERING BILL OF FORMER DAYS.

During the contested election in Meath, some forty years ago, Sir Mark Somerville sent orders to the proprietor of the hotel in Trim to board and lodge ; all that should vote for him, for which he received the following bill, which he .got framed, and it still hangs in Somerville House, county Meath :-— ' 16th April, 1826. j, My Bill. — To easing 16 freeholders above stairs for Sir M&rks at 3s 6d a head isto me, £_ 12s. To eating 16 more below stair and two priests after supper is to me £2 15s 9d. To six beds in one room and 4 in another at 2 i guineas every bed, and not more than four in any bed at the time cheap enough Q-od knows is to me £22 18s. To 18 horses and 5 mules about my yards all night at 13s every one of them and fjr a man which was lost on the head of watching them all night is to me £5 5s Od, For breakfast on tay in ihe morning for every one of them and as many more as they brought as i near as I cat guess is to me £4 12s Od. To raw whiskey and punch, without talking of pipes and tobacco as well as for porter, and as well as. for breaking a pofc&bove stairs and other glasses and delt for the first day and night I am sure for the three days and a half of the election as little as I can call it and not be very exact it is in all or thereabouts as I can guess aid not' to be particular is to me at least £79 15s 9d. For shaving and crapping of Ihe heads of the 49 freeholders for Sir Marks at 13d for every head of "hem by my brother has a Wote is to ne £2 13s Id. For a womit and nurse by poor Tom Kernan in the middle of the night when he was not expected is to ne ten hogs. I don't talk of the piper <x for keeping him sobei as long as he vas sober is to me £40 10s. . ;

£100 10 7 you may say £111 0 0 so your Honor Sir Mirks send me this eleven hundred by Bryan himself who and I prays for success always in Trim and no more afc present.

2 2 22 5 5 79 2 The Total 12 0 0 15 0 0 15 0 0 5 0 0 12 0 0 15 0 9 13 0" 1 10 10 1 0 0 Signod in tie place Jemmy Carrs ■wife his Pryan. M G-arraly Maa-k.