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went before them and asked tor the charge why I was not
registered They made no answer. 1 then asked if there
were any objections filed against me. They made no answer.
I told them if there was any I would like to know it — l did
not like to be disfranchised without a cause. I told them I
would like them to give me a trial, and if they proved me
disloyal I was willing to abide by it Mr. Wilson, one of
the Registers replied, so far as he was concerned, he knew
nothing and bad heard of nothing against me. So far as he
was concerned, he said, he wished every man could vote.
Mr. Mills said he knew of nothing. They said they didn't.
have their books, and couldn't do anything that day. Mr.
Pusey was nor there.
3d.
A. Did not vote; would have voted for J. R. Franklin.
4th. Waived.
Cross-Examination. Waived.
The above has been read to me and is correct.
JESSE DAVIS.
Attested to and written by Henry Page, Clerk.
William J. Aikman, a witness produced on behalf of
Claimant; being duly sworn, answers and says:
1st. Itnetrrogatory:
A. I have resided in Somerset county all my life with the
exception of three or four years, and thirty-three years old;
Somerset has been my home for the last eight, years; resided
in 1865, in Salisbury district.
2d.
A. Did apply some two or three weeks after they
first began sitting; took the oath: they asked me two ques-
tions, if I had ever borne arms for, the government of the
United States? said I had; then asked me if I had ever borne
arms against the government ? said no; one of the Registers
asked me for my discharge: said Mr. Lemuel Malone had it,

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