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Excerpt from Records of the First Parliamentary Election for the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees: Embracing the Polling Lists, Reports of Public Meetings, and a Biographical Sketch of Joseph Dodds, 1868 Mr chas. Trotter, chairman of Lord Ernest Vane's committee, pro posed that Lord Ernest was a fit and proper person to represent the borough of Stockton in the Commons House of Parliament. (groans and cheers.) He most sincerely believed that he was the most fit and proper person. (ironical laughter.) He had no private interests to serve, and nothinor but the welfare of the borough to consider. It had been asked, What had Lord Ernest Vane done for Stockton? He would tell them. The great Conservative party of which he was the re resentative, had given them the franchise. (interruption) He would a so support useful local legislation and the reduction of the national expenditure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.