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122 2d. That they excluded from Registration, all who upon examination declared that in 1861 at the election for a mem- ber of Congress from this district, they had voted for Daniel M. Henry, the democratic candidate. 3d. That they excluded all those who declared on exam- ination, that they had voted in 1864 for Levin L. Walters, for the Senate of Maryland, although no other objections was made to them. 4th. That the said Officers in some instances offered to Register a citizen if he would promise to vote the Repub- lican ticket at the approaching election. 5th. That they refused to Register persons for no other reason than because they would not promise to vote said ticket. 6th. That many applicants were examined and answered all the questions satisfactorily that were propounded, but were afterwards entered upon the books as disloyal, without ever being notified of any charge of disloyalty, and without being afforded any opportunity to defend themselves. 7th. That many were disfranchised without the produc- tion of any witnesses against them, and without any suffi- cient cause whatever. 8th. That in many cases where it appears from the books that witnesses were sworn, such entry is false and fraudulent, said witnesses never having appeared before them or testi- fied at all. 9th. That where the cause of disfranchisement appears on the books, it is illegal and insufficient. 10th. That citizens of said county, who were legally enti- tled to be Registered, were wantonly and illegally disquali- fied. 11th. And that those who were prevented from voting by the aforesaid illegal and unjust conduct of the Officers of Registration, if they had been registered would have voted, and for your memorialist, whereby his poll in said county would have been largely increased. Your memorialist will refrain from citing other instances of illegal and arbitrary conduct on the part of the said Reg- istration Officers whereby his election was prejudiced. The short time which has elapsed since the Hon. Thomas A. Spence closed his testimony, the nature of the evidence to be collected, lying as it does in the breast of so many differ- ent persons widely dispersed over a large county, and the inclement season of the year, make it very difficult to accom- |
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