, 1875-10-16
THE USE or pOLL-LlyTs.

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THE USE or pOlL-L1STS.
The Supreme Court has passed upon tho
csoss-errors assigned by counsel for tho peo-
ple in tllo city charter case, but 1sas not
thought proper to change il, tho lcast tho do
cision it has already rendered. Among the
er.'ss-errors assigned was TINT thu Court be-
low Sustained the demurrer 10 Tho following
| replication, TINT "at tho pretended election
lscld On the .3d day of April 1876, 10 POLL
books wcso kept Of tha yotos in tho polling.
places at the First Second. Seventh, Eighth,
Ninth, Eleventh, Eighteenth, nnd Twentieth
Wards, nor were my poll-books Or
other records kept upon which wero entered
tho names Of tho voters 80 voting as such
rlaccs, nor wero any num'era piaced uppn
tho l'allota 30 cast ut such polling. .plnces."
The Court sustained the demurrer on tho
ground that it did mot aver Tint tho INIT
tors alleged affected tho actual result. It
maintained, in tiIcr words, that the faiiuro
TO keep poll Flats at a,, clection, together with
all That this implies, will not ytinto at cleo
ton, unless it to atir,natively shown that tho
result WAS infected l,y the irrcgrlarity.
This in carrying tho doctrine Of certain
election prccetlcnts TO, MI oxtent warranted,
VIC be1ioye, neither by aound policy nor
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lent voting providing for tho registration
| OF the names Of all the legal voters Of the
State, in aud for tic making Of poll-!ists.
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