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Anwer I am 55 years old; ,a farmer and reside in Dis-
trict No. 10 A;;egany County Maryland I have lived there

21 years.

2d Interrog, Did you attend the election in your district
on the 6th of November; and did you see armed men there
intimidating and preventing voters from voting ?

Answer. I attended the polls in my district and saw men
armed with rifles, revolvers and clubs there, but I did not see
them, intimidate any one nor use their weapons in any way
Both political parties were armed. The election was a very
quiet one. I was at the polls over three hours.
3d Interrog. Did you attend a religious meeting a short
time before the election in November last; if so, what passed

there of a political character to disturb the meeting ?

Answer. I attended the meeting, several weeks before the,
election, at Ryan's Glades Meeting House on Sabbath. There
were six or seven men came riding up at the close of the
meetings, of whom I can name Peter Chisholm Walter Chis-
holm, Buck Mason, William Hoye, and —— Browning four
of which number had been in the Rebel army. These men
and some of those in the Church had a fight, but I did not
see the beginning of it.

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X NOAH HARVEY,
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G J R. KNOW.
Witness.

Joseph Friend, being duly sworn ad examined by interrog-

atories deposes and says

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

dence?

Answer I am 67 years of age, a farmer, and living in Dis-

trict No 15, Allegeny county, Md

2d Interrogatory. Were you a Judge of the election in
November last, in district No. 15; and if so, were any pers-

sons' votes rejected, and why ?

Answer. I was associate Judge in District 15, at the last
November election. There were two person's ballots rejected.
because they would not take the Constitutional oath which

the Judges desired or asked them to take. The reason we
required them to take the oath before voting was that I was

creditably informed that the proper oath was not put to them

by the register in 1866. The names o f the parties whose

votes were rejected were, John L. Browning and Ralph

Browning. The oath we asked them to take was that found
in section 4 of Article 1 of the Constitution the State of