The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-12-14
iority for you, and upon which your

ority for you, and upon which your
certificate ofIeleclion is founded.
10th. That the Judges Of the elee-
lion in Goodhope township Hooking
county o., certified that you had re-
ccived 109 votes in said township,
when in fact, you only received 164
and that had received 49 votos when
in fact. 1 had received 50 votes, this
through fraud, coOnivance and the un-
lawful doings Of tho Judges Of said cleo
tion.
1lth. That divers and sundry por.
sons and among others the Judges and
clerks Of tho election of Goodhope
township in Hooking county Ohio
wilfuIly and corruptly tamporcd with
the poll books and ballot box of said
election, opening counting andinspect-
ing the ballots before the polls werc
closed and by entering up the names
of q largo number of voters to-wit:
Martin Agner jr.. VIM. Tidd, VIM,
Sharp and others on the poll books
and falsely certifying lOS votes for
you when in fact you had but 104 and
by certifying 43 votes for mo when in
fact had 53legal votes.
18th. That no loyal election was
hold in Washington township Hook,
ing county Ohio at the aforesaid Octo-
ber election AID. 1865, yet the proten-
ded Ju iges of election therein certi6-
cd that you had received l53 votes tor
Senator when in fact you had not re-
ccivcd any legal votes, and said 1853
votes was made part OF tho abstract
on which you obtained your certificate
of election.
18th. That the Judges of tho Elec
tion in Washington township, Hook
ing county, Ohio, corruptly and will
fully tampercd with tho polls, ballot
box and poll.books OF SAID election in
this, to wit that they certified that
you had las votes; that had l23 votes,
WHOM, in fact, had 1877 votes.
l4th. That the Judges of tho Elec.
tion in Marion township. Hooking
county, Ohio, fraudulently and wilfuI-
ly failed, refused and neglected to
count four votes for mo which | actu.
ally received.
18th. That in the township of Ward
in Hooking county, Ohio, twenty or
more illegal votes were cast for you in
tho election October 10Th, 1865, by
persons who had no legal right to
vote.
lG!h. That in the township of Green,
Hooking county, Chic, nineteen illo-
gal votes were cast for you, by mon
who had no right to vote in said cleo :
tion in said township.
l7lh. That at divers and sundry
places in Hooking county, Ohio, You
received large number of illegal
votes, of to-wit: ono hundred or more,
given by persons who had no legal
right to vote.
18th. That the Judges of the Elec.
ton in the townships of Goodhopc,
Washington and Laurel, ia Hooking
county, Ohio, Tailed largo number
Of votes for you, to-wit; one hundred
or moro, when, in fact, you received
no legal votes in said townships.
10Th. That ono Erwin Moore, then
and there being u candidate for coun-
ty office in Fairfield county, Ohio, to,
wit q candidate for County Commits.
sioner, and we'll knowing the illegal.
ty thereof, did SIT in the Board of Elec.
tion, md act rs ono of the Judges OF
.ho blcctiun IN inc township OF Bloom,
in said county, and did, with tho 9TH
er Judges ofsaid Election tamper with
tho poll-tooks and balIot-bo of said
election, and did take from the box,
before tho closing of the polls, large
number of ballots, and otherwise viola.
ting tho law to protect tho purity ol
elections.
goth. That no legal election was
held in Bloom township, in Fairfield
county, Ohio, at said election, and nc
legal votos cast; yet you havea large
number of votes, to.wit: 1856 majority
ovor myself
2lst. That no legal election was
hold in the 4th ward in the city o.
Lancaster in Fairfield county, Ohio at
said election, and yot you have n large
number of votes to-wit: 2G majority
counted tor you as having bccn givcr
in said ward and city, ,..
22d. That u large number of illega
votes to wit: Ono hundred or NOR,
were cast for you in Fairfield county
Ohio, by persons not entitled to vot
in said election
23d. That you received q largo mum
Der of Illegal votes in Athens county
f Ohio, to.wit; 80 or moro givcn by per
sons not entitled TO vote.
9th. That the Clerks of the Cour
in Hooking and Fairfield county, Obi
violated tho election laws of the Stat
of Ohio in opening, counting and pub
fishing the vote given in the severo
townships of said county before rh
time prescribed by law thereof
+ ..s Very Respectfully, .-
Your Oocdient Servant,
! -..... , G. III. GROSVENOR.
GNnn iNr.t Ana A.,,s