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By Mr. Devecmon :

1st Question. What is your name, age, residence and occu-
pation ?

Answer. My name is Jacob Shaffer. age 63, reside in Dis-
trict No. 10, Allegany county, and by occupation a Mechanic.
2nd Question. Where you registered prior to Nov. 1866?
Answer. I was registered in September, 1866.

3rd Question. Did you attend the election held in Allegaay
county, November 6 1866; did you offer to vote, and was your
vote accepted or rejected, and whose names were on your ticket
as candidates for House of Delegates?

Answer. I attended said election, offered to vote, but it
was rejected. The names of the persons on my ticket as
candidates for the House of Delegates, were William Devec-
mon, Patrick Hammil, Georgft W. McCulloh, Wm. A. Bryden
and John McElfish.

4th Question. Where there any armed men at the polls on
November 6. 1866, in District No, 10?

Answer. There were a good many armed men there, and
they belonged to the Radical party.

Cross-examined by Mr, Brown.

1st Question. How many armed men were there?

Answer. About 30 I think. I was at the polls about three
hours. I knew some of the armed party, about fifteen. They
were Radicals, that is those I knew; I cant say as to the poli-
tics of the other fifteen; I saw no use made of the arms; I
saw no one assaulted.

I did not vote, the Judges refused rny vote, but never asked
m« to take any oath; They asked me'if I had not voted for
the Ordinance of Secession in Virginia; I told them I had,
because I believed all the Southern States would secede, and
then we would have a National Convention, and settle things
without bloodshed; consider myself loyal; had a son killed in
the Federal Army, and never gave any aid or comfort to the
enemy except to feed them under compulsion. I offered to
prove my loyalty to the Judges by soldiers in the Union
Army. It is not usual in District No. 10, to carry so many
guns to the polls, sometimes two or three.

JACOB SHAFER.
Deposition No. 12.

GEORGE L. MOSSER, being duly sworn, deposed and said as
follows, to wit:
By Mr. Devecmon,