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Show gnUAMENTOP BANK. Cllf5,,', ' "" ot IlewJIUrj M I'cWlatori. i ,. 1iyc"f dl) ' "l"1u' the OMB lng',wB'1 et unrcfotmed 1'mTU-mnffJ 1'mTU-mnffJ l siya n writer In Iho Lpn "r Ma I Ther Is bat oni hoag&Mt Is called the Kh'efsj'ljlda aw faJF ! for 1 lienors every ini polltlW reform t -urcrs that the mod-el mod-el sKf rtoull lune one legist tlv) bodLSal) Hit this tingle hotis i Is oilfly ii In t-e of landlords, ox-eluiSy ox-eluiSy tiuii of hereditary Icgli-latoffil Icgli-latoffil The pri e of the Island nro notp to it their represents tHew'-WI ah . is represented, not wtxVX atr in licit, nor the tlllnj matnj. "f the intimerged tenth. And thoTp1" I rl"i aented 111 a peeu'lnr wa)Jtttn thi Islthd. then tmlnbab-Itedlftl tmlnbab-Itedlftl grant! I n 1CR& by Dueen Klltta to lb I. r de Carteret, Lord of HO' "Mi In J rse it was sllpulnt?d thatO Itould (olonlte It nnd ahould grnijTJrrU of it to 40 ot hla retainers retain-ers q'ullowera . j inpyholderi or cus-torotry cus-torotry ttasnts under him Itwasalu stipuuted thit these tonants, though thrflnilcbt nlirnsti- their ho'dlnts upoaJPtraent to the lord ot a thirteenth thir-teenth el the value mlaht on no nc-cotifftoldUi.il nc-cotifftoldUi.il them Thus there nrs stlliun the Island the orlgtnil 40 et-tategati et-tategati the holder ot each eatato occur!" oc-cur!" Jth ri sird to the seigneur or lord almost ixntiy the samo pisl-tloavt pisl-tloavt ' leu It or a biron oeeupie I In IJ" wd feinlnl days of Normandy wltQrmril to the sovereign Tho cx-IstUl cx-IstUl larllinient of Hark Is, In tffict. thoafAWDiblie des leudes ct buons ' of tFo liltnd The law of strict prlmo-1 genjture obtains and there would bo today 40 hereditary members of tho J Chefi i'Uhls but for two clrium-ttiiDtfS. clrium-ttiiDtfS. One Is that It n tenant happen! hap-pen! to be a woman the does not tit. thoagh the may vote In tho house by nroiy. 'The other Is that. In tho course of jenrs, certain of tho members, by Inheritance or piirehKfe. hare acquired roolr thin one estate. There nro now, therefore, not more than nbout 30 actual ac-tual sitting; members ot tho Chefs 1'lshti. They represent It they can be jail to represent n population ot ooe 570 souls and an extent of about ,: seres. |