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117 7th. Did you not lay it before the judges of election of the 10th district, and did they receive or reject it as evidence of a . legal registration? ' . A. I did on the morning of the election after they were sworn in: they said they did not think it was lawfully done, and they rejected it; in the morning I left my place as a judge, and was gone for. about an hour and a half; before I went, the paper had not been. thrown aside, and one vote had been cast, after I returned I was told by the other judges there they had thrown aside the paper and asked me it I agreed to it, and I not thinking the paper lawful agreed to it. 8th. Did you or not vote at that election and for whom did you vote? A. I did vote and for Franklin. Gross-Examination: 1st. During the war were not your sympathies with the South? A. I don't think it a legal question, and I decline to an- swer. 2d. Did you feel or express any regret at the issue "of the battle of Bull Bun? A. I decline to answer. To the first cross-interrogatory: A. I decline to answer. 2nd: A. I decline to answer. 3d: A. I decline to answer. 4th: A. I don't recollect a of expressing any thing like it. The above has been read to me and is correct. WM. W. BOUNDS. Attested and written by Henry Page, Clerk. Robert S. Ritchie, a witness produced for the claimant, being duly sworn, answers and says: |
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