ELECTIONEERING BILL OF FORMER DAYS.

Waikato Times, Volume VII, Issue 383, 27 October 1874, Page 2

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 hotelin Trim to board and lodge ' all that should vote for him, for which he received i the following bill, which he got'framed, and it Btill • hangs in Somerville House, County Meath : —

. • 16th April, 1826; My Bill — To eating 16 freeholders above stairs for Sir Marks , at 3a 6d a head ia to me £2 12a To eating 16 more balow and two priest 3 after supper ia to me £2 15s 9d. To 6 beds in one room and 4 in another at 2 guinea^ every bed and- not more than four in any bed at the time cheap enough God knows is to me £32 15s. To 18 horses and 5 mules about my yard all night at 13s every one of them and for a man which was lost on the head of watching them all night is to me £5 ss. For breakfaston tuy in the morning for every one of them and aa many more as they brought as near I can gness is to me £4 12s. To raw whisky and punch without talking of pipes and tobacco as for porter, and as well as for breaking a pot above stairs and other glasses and delf for the first day and night 1 am sure but for the three days and a halt of the election as little as I can call it and not be very exact it is all or thoreaboui-s as I can guess and not to be too particular is to me at least £79 15s 9d. For shaving and crapping off the heads of the 49 freeholders for six marks at 13d for every one of them by my brother who has a wote is to me£ 2- 13s Id. For a womit and nurse for poor Tom Kernan in themiddle of the night, when he was not expected, istome ten" hogs. I don't talk of the piper or for keeping himsober as long as he was sober is to me £4 10s. 2 12 0 0 2 15 0 0 Signed 22 15 0 0 In the place Jemmy 5 5 0 0 Cars wife 4 12 0 0 his 79 15 0 9 Bryan X Garraty 2 13 0 1 Mark. £110 10 7 you may say £111 0 0 so your Honor Sir Marks send me his eleven hundred by Bryan himself who and I prays tor success always in Trim and no more at present.