Third, That at the polls in Election districts Nos. 10, l6,
15, 14 and 2, sundry illegal voters, unregistered and non-
resident, were permitted by the Judges of Election to cast
their votes for each of you for the House of Delegates, and
numerous legal voters, qualified to vote at said polls and
offering their votes at the polls for the contestants, were re-
jected, and refused to be allowed to vote by said Judges of
Election.

Fourth, That the election in Districts Nos. 4 and 1 were
held at illegal and unusual and improper places, inaccessible,
inconvenient, and places unknown to some of the voters until
it was too late to go there to vote, and that the Judges of
Election in those two districts held the election at those
places through improper bias for you, and with a view to
keep off the voters who were in favor of the contestants, and
that the said Judges behaved in other respects, at the polls
and prior to the election, with partiality to you and prejudice
to the contestants, and excluded and rejected legal voters who
offered their ballots for the contestants.

Fifth. That the Judges of Election in District No. 4, after
the polls were closed at said election, all went out of the
polling place and remained away about two hours, during which
time the poll list and ballot-box were out of their sight and
possession and left in the possession of one Abraham Dayton
and other persons; and that said election was held at the
drinking saloon, being a cave in the ground, of one Robert
Powell, and the ballot-box and poll list were left there while
the Judges were absent as aforesaid, and the said Robert
Powell had made bets on your election and against the con-
testants' election, and these facts were known to the said
Judges of Election.

Sixth. That the Judges of Election were partial in the dis-
charge of their duty, and were, and acted as, the partisans of
you the above named persons claiming to be elected, and
openly solicited voters to cast their ballots in favor of you,
while said election was going on and previous thereto, and
determined previous to said election to exclude certain legal
voters who would vote for the contestants and against you,
and did exclude many such voters in pursuance of such pre-
vious determination from casting their ballots for the contes-
tants, and that you or some of you advised said Judges or
some of them to exclude said persons from voting for contest-
ants.

Seventh. That each and every one of the witnesses herein-
before named, are legal .registered voters entitled to vote at
said election, and that each of them attended the polls in
their respective election districts on the day of election, to
wit, the 6th day of November, 1866, between 9 o'clock in the
morning and 6 in the evening, and tendered his ballot to the
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