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A. It is.
The above has been read to me and is correct.
LEVIN WOOLFORD.
Attested to and written by Henry Page, Clerh.
Littleton R. Polk, a witness' produced on behalf of the
Claimant, being duly sworn, answers uw\ says to special in-
terrogatories filed for him:
To the first interrogatory :
A. I was one of the judges of election in the fifth election
district, at the election held on the 7th of November last ;
there was a paper, purporting to be a list of qualified voters
of the fifth district, delivered to the judges on the morning
of the election; it was after the judges liad been sworn in,
and I think some time niter nine o'clock : it was handed to
the judges by Isaac Gibbons, Esq; I now produce the paper,
and file it herewith.
2d.
The Judges proceeded in the election under the Registra-
tion Law according to that list. A few hour's atler the elec-
tion commenced, four persons, giving the names of William
Anadale, Levin T. Parker. Severn McGrath, and Henry W".
Potter, came forward and offered their ballots. The list was
examined, and finding no such names on it, the Judges de-
clined to receive them. Whereupon Mr. Samuel!. Gibbons,
professing to be an officer of Registration, came before the
Judges and stated that these tour men had been before the
officers of Registration and had been passed by them; as
qualified voters, and that their names ought to be on the hist.
While the Judges were being urge by these men; and their
friends, backed up by one of the officers of Registcration, to
admit their votes, although their names were not on the list.
Mr. Isaac D. Jones came forward and examined the list be-
fore us, and not finding his name on it as he stated, offered
his ballot as a qualified voter, claiming; a right to vote under
the second section of the first article of the Constitution and
raised the question that the Registration act had not, been

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