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6th Interrogatory. Did you so attend the polls ?
Answer, I decline to answer.

JAMES W. WHITE.

(Excepted to by ' A. Spates.)

WILLIAM R. SOLLARS, (Sworn.)

Interrogatory 1. as No. 1, in B. Wm. R. Loliers, my age
50, occupation farmer, residence in Election District No. 10,
Allegany county, Maryland, have lived there 7 years.

Interrogatory 2, as 2, in B.

Answer. I was so appointed; did qualify and act for 1865;
had read the Constitution and law before entering upon that
duty; did so administer the oath; I did give notice.

Interrogatory 3. Did you register any persons as disquali-
fied for disloyalty; if so name them.

Answer. William Wilderson, John Knepp, Rob't Lee,
Wm. Moon, Wm. H. Kitzmiller, J. M. Shaffer Henry Shaf-
fer, David S. Arnold, J. McClure Mason and John Phillips, I
don't know whether any of the above named voted at the last
election or not; some of them were published as registered.

1st Cross-interrogatory by A. Spates.

Before whom did you qualify as Register in 1855 ?

Answer. Before squire Baker.

2d Cross-interrogatory. Did the parties whom you men-
tioned as disqualified from voting in 1865, apply to you to
be registered ?

Answer. They did; we did not administer the Constitu-
tional oath because they did not appear.

3d Cross-interrogatory. Did you give them notice that their
cases would be investigated, and were they present to con-
front the witnesses against them, when you so registered
them as disqualified ?

Answer. We simply gave the ordinary notice; they did
not appear.

4th Cross-interrogatory. Did you make a return of the
registered voters in District No. 10, for 1865, to the Clerk of
the Circuit Court for Allegany county ?

Answer. We thought we had.

Fifth Cross-interrogatory. How many of the persons mark-
ed by you as disloyal in 1865, voted at the election, Nov. 6,

1866.
Answer. I did not see any of them vote.

WILLIAM R. SOLLARS.
(Excepted to by A. Spates.)
JAMES CHISHOLM, Sr.
Interrogatory No. 1, as 1 in B.

James Chisholin age 65, years, occupation miller, residence
Election District, No. 10, in Allegany county, Md., have lived
there 17 years.