| Volume 107, Page 1401 View pdf image (33K) |
 |
|
|
 |
|
|
21 Reared before the officers of registration; if yea, state all that occurred while he was before you? A. I was. Mr. White cam' before us and asked what kind of a process men had to go through before they could be registered. I told him we had the law then to govern us in the discharge of our duty, he could take the law and read it lor himself. He said no, the would rather I would read it, but I insisted on him reading it. I handed him the Contstitu- tion first, the read that, I then handed him the law passed by the Legislature under that Constitution, he read that, and said that was pretty hard. I told him then I would give him the decision of Judge Spence, and lie read that. Said also that was pretty hard. I then handed him the opinion of Governor Bradford to read. He read about half of it, and asked me what I thought of a certain sentence. I told him to read on, it would explain itself. He read it through, said that was the hardest of anything he had read, and asked me what questions we asked him. I told him we bad a catalogue of questions there, some of which we made a business to ask, he could read those. He read them, said he could not take the oath nor answer those questions. He arose from his seat, said to four other men who came with him, "boys, if any of you can take the oath, come and do no, I cannot." I remarked to them, "Gentlemen, if you cannot, take the oath, give us your names, ages, places of birth, &c." Mr. White gave us his name, stood in the door and gave me the names and ages of the other parties with him and left He never appeared again. 7th. Where you present when Lemuel Malone applied for registration; if yea, slate what occurred in his presence? A. I was. I think Mr. Maione was the first person who made his appearance before the Board. He took the oath without hesitating. Alter he had I taken the oath we told him that we did not think that the was loyal. He asked us what we demanded of him then Mr. Bounds, one of the Registers, told him if the would get two loyal men in the dis- trict to testify tor his loyally, that lie would register him. He asked what two we would have. Wo told him we were not choice, any two loyal men that we wire acquainted with would answer. He called Mr. Henry J. Denson and Levin B. Price to testily for him, they both refused, but the insisted that they should give evidence, and I swore Mr. Price and he stated that he did not believe that. Mr. Malone was a loyal man under the new Constitution. I asked Mr. Price no questions at all. We swore Mr. Denson. He stated the same that Mr. Price did, saying lie did not believe Mr. Ma lone to be a loyal man under the new Constitution. I asked |
| |||
|
| ||||
|
| ||||
Please view image to verify text. To report an error, please contact us.
Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1866
| Volume 107, Page 1401 View pdf image (33K) |
|
Tell Us What You Think About the Maryland State Archives Website!
|
An Archives of Maryland electronic publication.
For information contact
mdlegal@mdarchives.state.md.us.
Maryland State Archives