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are known to this Board to 1>e well-known, reputable citizens of the Nine-
teenth Ward, whose characters are above reproach, and who would spurn
the willful committal of any act in violation of the law, we, therefore,
decline to remove them."'
The Reform League then issued an appeal to the Governor of the Stage
to- remove the majority Supervisors. The Governor has power to remove
"far incompetency, or yisccmduct, all civil. officers who received appoint-
ment from tile Executive for a term of v•ears,"~ and tile League urged that
the Supervisors, by their nliscundtlct, had caused the requirements of the
registration law to be ignored. The especial requirements they alleged
were not kept were: " first, that registers appointed by the Board shall 1>e
men of approved integrity and capacity, and, secondly, that the minority
party shall be represented, as well on the registration board of each
precinct
of Baltimore, as upon the Beard of Supervisors." Tile conduct of the
registers daring the Sep~tember sitting, and the refusal to remove them,
showed a nullification of. the first requirement. of the law. The facts
that the
so-called minority representatives in registration boards were not nomi-
nated by the minority member of the Supervisors, and that some of these so-
called minority members were repudiated as such by the party they were
supposed to represent, showed q nullification of the second requirement.';
Tile charges were formally filed on September 2(i, 1R9:i.' The Reform
League stated that, as |
