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2d. Did you apply to persons professing to he the Officers
of Registration in your district, for registration as a legal
and qualified voter; if you did, did you take the oath, and
did you or not refuse to answer any question propounded by
the Officers of Registration; was any charge preferred
against you, or were; any witnesses confronted with you?
State all that occurred at the time of your application, as far
as you can recollect?
3d. Did you vote at the judicial election in November,
.1865; if yea, for whom did you vote, or for whom would you
have voted had you been permitted to vote?
4th. Have you any knowledge of any conduct of the Offi-
cers of Registration in your district in the discharge of the
duties of their office, shewing a purpose to exclude their po-
litical opponents from registration as legal and. qualified, vo-
ters, or to register as such only those who would vote with
them? State fully, and your means of knowledge?
5th. Have you or not any knowledge of the political char-
acter of the voters in your district; if yea, from that knowl-
edge how many Democrats have been excluded by the Regis-
ters, and how many, in your judgment, have been deterred-
from applying for Registration, by tlieir conduct in office of
those acting as Officers of Registration.
JONES & IRVING,
Attornies for John E. Franklin.
[The contestant objects, generally to each and all of the
above questions and the answers thereto.
H.PAGE,
CIerk.
T. A. Spence, Contestant, ) First Interrogatory on Re-direct
vs. > Examination after Cross-exami-
J. R. Franklin, Claimant. ) nation by Judge Spence.
During the civil war between the United States and the
Southern States, did you or not, "by any open deed or word
declare your adhesion to the cause of the enemies of the
United States, or your desire for the triumph of said enemies
over the armies of the United States?"

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