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the office, and how many tickets did you string, and were
you sworn ?

Answer. I did not keep a tally; Mr. Conrad took charge of
the tickets, but I do not know what he did with them, I do
not know if they were in my office or not; I had the key of my
office; don't know how many tickets I strung; I was not
sworn. The polls were held in my office, was not a Judge of
the Election.

M. SHERRY.

JOHN BOWARD, (Sworn.)

Interrogatory 1st. As in Schedule D. John Boward, my
age, 64; occupation, cabinet maker; reside in District No. 6,
of Allegany county, Maryland, have resided there upwards
of 20 years.

Interrogtoary 2d. As in Schedule D:

Answer. I was appointed, qualified and acted as judge at
said election. I took all the tickets out of the box, I opened
them, and then handed them to Judge Reid, who read them
all, he read each name separately, and then handed them to
Judge Willison, who strung them, they were read correctly,
and tallied correctly to the best of my knowledge, the count for
Senator was correctly set down, I counted the tickets over af-
ter the election, and the vote for C. H Ohr was correctly set
down by the clerks; I did return the said and identical tickets
to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Allegany county.

To the 1st cross-interrogatory to J. Boward, answers and
says: It was not possible for him to look over the ticket while
the judge read it. It was not possible for me to see that the
clerks put each persons vote down properly, I sat near enough
to one clerk to have seen, but not near enough to the other,
and I cannot say that I saw every vote put down properly.

Excepted to by C. H. Ohr.

To the 2d cross-interrogatory he answers and says: That
he and his fellow judges did not count the tickets the second
time, I was return judge, and with the assistance of two of
the return judges, I made a re-count, when it appeared that
there were two votes less for C. H. Ohr than had been certi-
fied to by the Judges of District No. 6; and in making this
re-count the other judges several times stopped me, and in-
formed me that I had turned two tickets at once, after this
re-count, I took the tickets home, and counted them myself,
and found them to agree with the 1st count as to the number
of votes for C. H. Ohr, and it was so certified by the return
judges. The tickets were counted three times, twice at the
Court House, and once at my own house.

JOHN BOWARD.