10

Judges of Election with the names of the contestants printed
on said ballots for House of Delegates, and offered, intended
and tried to vote for contestants for said office, but said
Judges of Election refused to receive their votes and deprived
them of the right of voting for the contestants.

Eighth. That a large number of persons who were your
partisans and friends and voted for you at said election, sur-
rounded the polls with arms and weapons in election District
No. 10 on the morning of election and held the said polls all
that day and drove off by force, violence, threats and intimi-
dation a large number of legal registered voters who were
entitled to vote at said election for members of the House of
Delegates, and who desired and intended and offered them-
selves ready at the polls with their ballots in their hands to
vote for the contestants for the House of Delegates, and that
these persons were forced off and could not put in their bal-
lots for the contestants by reason of the force, violence,
threats and intimidation aforesaid.

They further notify and require each of you to attend in
person or by attorney at the Glades Hotel in Oakland, Alle-
gany county, on Wednesday and Thursday, the 5th and 6th
days of December next, at 10 o'clock A. M., to cross examine
witnesses, and also attend in person or by attorney, at my
office in the city of Cumberland, on Monday the 10th day of
December next, at 10 o'clock A. M., to cross examine wit-
nesses and do such matters in the premises as you desire.
And you are further notified that if all said testimony cannot
be taken on the days and at the places herein named, the
taking of the same will be continued from day to day at the
said named places until it is completed.

Given under my hand and seal this 21st day of November,
in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-six.

JOHN B. WIDENER, J. P. [SEAL.]
A copy of which said notice, with an affidavit of service
thereof and certificate endorsed thereon, is herewith returned
as part of this record, marked "Contestant's Exhibit B."

J. B. WIDENER,

Justice of the Peace of the State of
Maryland, in and for Allegany county, Maryland.

OAKLAND, ALLEGANY COUNTY, MD.,

December 5th, 1866.

In pursuance of the aforegoing notice, I attended, at the
time and place therein designated, and having appointed Jo-
seph A. Cahill as Clerk, and administered to him an oath to
fairly write down and transcribe the depositions to be taken