Miscellaneous Documents: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 49th Congress, 1st Session, Volume 9 |
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... holds . Your committee do not deem it necessary to enter into any detailed discussion of the case . A few statements will show sufficient grounds on which to rest the conclusion they have reached . The contestee in his brief claims that ...
... holds . Your committee do not deem it necessary to enter into any detailed discussion of the case . A few statements will show sufficient grounds on which to rest the conclusion they have reached . The contestee in his brief claims that ...
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... hold an election , and , acting in concert with evil - disposed per- sons , by fraudulent representations , threats of violence , and of criminal prosecutions , prevented other persons from opening the polls and carrying on an election ...
... hold an election , and , acting in concert with evil - disposed per- sons , by fraudulent representations , threats of violence , and of criminal prosecutions , prevented other persons from opening the polls and carrying on an election ...
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... holds the office . Though affiant's forty days had expired he still persisted in trying to take testi- mony , in order that this honorable committee might be made to know , as far as lay in his power to enable them to learn by legal ...
... holds the office . Though affiant's forty days had expired he still persisted in trying to take testi- mony , in order that this honorable committee might be made to know , as far as lay in his power to enable them to learn by legal ...
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... hold said election ? Were they present to open the polls , and were they supporters of Charles M. Shelley for Congress , and were they Democrats in politics ? -A . The inspectors appointed by the county authorities were E. P. Holcombe ...
... hold said election ? Were they present to open the polls , and were they supporters of Charles M. Shelley for Congress , and were they Democrats in politics ? -A . The inspectors appointed by the county authorities were E. P. Holcombe ...
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... hold on the day of the election ; were you commissioned , and where is your commission now ? ( Counsel for contestee objects to the question , upon the ground that it calls for sec- ondary evidence . ) A. I was United States supervisor ...
... hold on the day of the election ; were you commissioned , and where is your commission now ? ( Counsel for contestee objects to the question , upon the ground that it calls for sec- ondary evidence . ) A. I was United States supervisor ...
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Page 639 - Each house shall be the judge of the election,, returns, and qualifications of its own members...
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 610 - ... 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 659 - It shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the court admitting any alien to citizenship that immediately preceding the date of his application he has resided continuously within the United States five years at least, and within the state or territory where such court is at the time held one year at least...
Page 638 - 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 491 - ... and counties in which they were given; they shall certify such statements to be correct, and subscribe their names thereto, and they shall thereupon determine what persons have been, by the greatest number of votes, duly elected to such offices, or either of them, and shall endorse and subscribe on such statements a certificate of their determination, and deliver them to the secretary of state.
Page 627 - That no polygamist, bigamist, or any person cohabiting with more than one woman, and no woman cohabiting with any of the persons described as aforesaid in this section, in any Territory or other place over which the United States have exclusive jurisdiction, shall be entitled to vote at any election held in any such Territory or other place, or be eligible for election or appointment to or be entitled to hold any office or place of public trust, honor, or emolument in, under, or for any such Territory...
Page 610 - ... resided five years within the United States, including the three years of his minority, be admitted a citizen of the United States, without having made the declaration required in the first condition of...
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 657 - 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.— R.