Miscellaneous Documents: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 49th Congress, 1st Session, Volume 9 |
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... refused to open the polls and 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 ...
... refused to open the polls and 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 ...
Page 10
... refused to take the deposi- tions , because he was a relative of contestant ; that he did not take further testimony , because he thought he could procure no officer to take them that would be even as favorable to him as Baldwin ; that ...
... refused to take the deposi- tions , because he was a relative of contestant ; that he did not take further testimony , because he thought he could procure no officer to take them that would be even as favorable to him as Baldwin ; that ...
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... refused to take the said testimony because he was the cousin of contestant's wife , upon objection for this rea- son alone , made as aforesaid by the attorneys for contestee ; and affiant avers that no officers under the laws of the ...
... refused to take the said testimony because he was the cousin of contestant's wife , upon objection for this rea- son alone , made as aforesaid by the attorneys for contestee ; and affiant avers that no officers under the laws of the ...
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... refused to give credit to those whom they had formerly credited , because they were witnesses for contestant , and would refuse the same and tell them to return home and not be fooling about politics , and to go to contestant for money ...
... refused to give credit to those whom they had formerly credited , because they were witnesses for contestant , and would refuse the same and tell them to return home and not be fooling about politics , and to go to contestant for money ...
Page 18
... refused to act , although present , and after the closing of the polls he appears in the room and claims and takes the ballot - box containing the ballots and puts it in a satchel , and such per- son being remonstrated with hands back ...
... refused to act , although present , and after the closing of the polls he appears in the room and claims and takes the ballot - box containing the ballots and puts it in a satchel , and such per- son being remonstrated with hands back ...
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Popular passages
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.