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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1866
Volume 107, Page 1635   View pdf image (33K)
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MEMORIAL.
To the Honorable,
The House of Delegates of the State of Maryland.
The memorial of George E. Gambrill, of Anne Arundel
county, respectfully represents to your Honorable Body; that
on the seventh day of November in the year eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-five, a general election was ordered and held
in Anne Arundel county, for clerk of the Circuit court for
said county, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the
previous incumbent, Nicholas H. Green.
That at the said election, your memorialist was a candidate
and received a large number of votes. But he avers that at
the same election a certain Sprigg Harwood and Benjamin E.
Gantt were also candidates, and the said Sprigg Harwood
was returned as having received five hundred and forty votes;
your memorialist as having received three hundred and seven-
ty-eight votes, and the said. Benjamin E. Gantt as having
received two hundred and twenty votes, as will apper from
the returns duly lodged in the office of the Governor. He
charges that the said Harwood at the time of said election was
ineligible to the said office, because he was then, and from
the November election 1864, had been a Senator of Maryland,
representing said county, in the Legislature, and at the Jan-
uary Session 1865, during said term, the profits of the office
of clerk of the Circuit court, had been increased in different
respects by laws passed by the said Legislature at their said
January Session, 1865, and especially by the passage of the
Act of 1865, chapter 181, in reference to the issuing of licen-
ses by clerks of the Circuit court to persons to catch oysters,
which increased the fees, commissions and profits of the clerk
to the Circuit court for Anne Arundel county to a consider-
able extent, and he is advised that by section 16, of article
3, of the Constitution of the State the ineligibility of the said
Harwood, in this point of view will fully appear.
And he charges that the said Harword was ineligible to
the said office, because the said Harword at the time of said
election was not a registered voter of the said county or State,
and. is not such at this time.

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