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Answer; I am 36 years old, a Saddler, and reside in Dis-
trict No. 13, Allegany county, Md.

2d Interrogatory. Did you attend the polls in election Dis-
trict No. 13, Allegany county, Md.,at the election on the
6th of November last; Did you offer to vote, and for whom
did you, or would you have voted ?

Answer. I attended the polls in No. 13, at the said election.
My ballot was rejected. I would have voted the full Demo-
crat ticket. Wm. Devecmon, Pat'k Hammill, John McEl-
fish, Wm. A. Bryden and Geo. W, McCulloh for the State
Legislature.

3d Interrogatory. Why was your vote rejected; Were you
not a legally registered voter ?

Answer. Thomas Shuck, one of the judges, said I made
some disloyal remarks against the Massachusetts troops when
they crossed the Long Bridge. I was a legal and qualified
voter, and my name appeared on the published list of regis-
tered voters. Thomas McKee, Sr., appeared before the Reg-
ister in 1866, but the Register overruled the objection and
registered me as a qualified voter.

LEWIS H. SOYSTER.

Christopher Kelly, witness on the part of the contestants,
being sworn and examined by interrogatories, deposes and
says:

1st Interrogatory. What is your age, occupation and resi-
dence ?

Answer. I am 29 years of age, a farmer, and reside in
District No. 7, Allegany county, Md.

2d Interrogatory. Did you attend the polls at thejelection
on the 6th of November, 1866; was there any intimidation
practised upon voters, or any one hindred from voting ? State
your knowlege herein fully and at large.

Answer. I attended the polls at the election on the 6th of
November. There was nothing that I would look upon as
intimidation practised upon voters. When Griffin Twigg
came there, he got off his horse and went hastily up to the
polls and objected to Samuel Wagoner's vote. Some others
interfered and told him he had no right to do it, and it look-
ed as if a disturbance was getting up. I saw the excitement
was getting up, indiscriminate of party and permiscously,
and I ran across the street and bluffed up, as it were, against
this man Twigg, who was working out of the crowd, meeting
me like, and I went up rather in a menacing manner, think-
ing he meant fight, and I was in the same attitude. H e
then said, "stop Kelly, let us reason this case." I have al-
ways known you to be a man of reason. He said it rather
friendly like. I said there's no reason about a man that wants
to deprive a citizen, like Wagoner, from voting; he's as good
a right to vote as you or I: I said this with an oath. I