Sorry, I omitted the L first time round! ----- Original Message ----- From: Brendan Burke To: IRL-GALWAY-@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 7:33 PM Subject: Voters Lists V05 #23 Hi Bobbie, Up to 1829 tenant farmers who occupied land with a rateable valuation of at least forty shillings (2 pounds) could also vote. They were known as forty shilling freeholders. The level was raised to £10 in 1829 in a political ploy to soothe the rage in certain English circles at the granting of Catholic Emancipation. Brendan Burke Dublin.