Digest of Election Cases: Cases of Contested Elections in the House of Representatives, Forty-seventh Congress, from 1880 to 1882, InclusiveU.S. Government Printing Office, 1883 - 692 pages |
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... alleged ground that Her- bert's name was spelled Hebert instead of Herbert in this number of ballots . As to Escambia County , by the law of Alabama it is the duty of the sheriff , judge of probate , and clerk of the circuit court to ...
... alleged ground that Her- bert's name was spelled Hebert instead of Herbert in this number of ballots . As to Escambia County , by the law of Alabama it is the duty of the sheriff , judge of probate , and clerk of the circuit court to ...
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... alleged and appearing in evidence were not sufficient to render the election of contestee void . Contestant has arrayed the schemes of fraud conceived and executed in the election held in August , 1880 , and claims that the same ...
... alleged and appearing in evidence were not sufficient to render the election of contestee void . Contestant has arrayed the schemes of fraud conceived and executed in the election held in August , 1880 , and claims that the same ...
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... alleged informalities in the returns , and that the votes so unlawfully returned and manipulated were tabulated and included in the estimate by the canvassing officers , and formed a part of the vote upon which the secretary of state ...
... alleged informalities in the returns , and that the votes so unlawfully returned and manipulated were tabulated and included in the estimate by the canvassing officers , and formed a part of the vote upon which the secretary of state ...
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... alleged that after his time for taking testimony had expired , and on February 28 , 1881 , he applied to the probate judge of Russell County to take his depositions , and that he refused because the time had expired ; that the time ...
... alleged that after his time for taking testimony had expired , and on February 28 , 1881 , he applied to the probate judge of Russell County to take his depositions , and that he refused because the time had expired ; that the time ...
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... alleged in his notice of contest , and the committee think that the affidavit is fatally defective , and no ex- tension should be granted by reason of anything therein stated . The report of the Senate Committee on Privileges and ...
... alleged in his notice of contest , and the committee think that the affidavit is fatally defective , and no ex- tension should be granted by reason of anything therein stated . The report of the Senate Committee on Privileges and ...
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Page 608 - ... that it is bona fide his Intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, and particularly, by name to the prince, potentate, state or sovereignty of which the alien may be at the time a citizen or subject.
Page 348 - It is a maxim not to be disregarded that general expressions, in every opinion, are to be taken in connection with the case in which those expressions are used. If they go beyond the case, they may be respected, but ought not to control the judgment in a subsequent suit when the very point is presented for decision.
Page 608 - ... that he will support the Constitution of the United States, and that he doth absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty whatever, and particularly, by name, the prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty whereof he was before a citizen or subject ; which proceedings shall be recorded by the clerk of the court.
Page 20 - ... and every written one in the term "depose"; signature or subscription includes mark, when the person cannot write, his name being written near it by a person who writes his own name as a witness...
Page 608 - States three years next preceding his arriving at that age, and who has continued to reside therein to the time he may make application to be admitted a citizen thereof, may,- after he arrives at the age of twenty-one years, and after he has resided five years within the United States, including the three years of his minority, be admitted a citizen of the United States...
Page 636 - That the Constitution, and all Laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said Territory of Nebraska as elsewhere within the United States...
Page 658 - An act to establish an uniform rule of naturalization; and to repeal the act heretofore passed on that subject.
Page 91 - Those who shall have been convicted of treason, embezzlement of public funds, malfeasance in office, larceny, bribery, illegal voting or other crime punishable by hard labor or imprisonment in the penitentiary, idiots and insane persons.
Page 120 - The ballot shall be a paper ticket, which shall contain, written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, the names of the persons for whom the elector intends to vote, and shall designate the office to which each person so named is intended by him to be chosen...
Page 655 - The person having the greatest number of votes shall be declared by the governor duly elected, and a certificate shall be given accordingly. Every such Delegate shall have a seat in the House of Representatives, with the right of debating, but not of voting.