The Russellville Democrat., 1879-01-02

O. the County Seat ol s~id county Your are hereby notified. that ai the next tenn of said County Court to be begun and held at the Court House in the town of Dover in said county. on the sixth day Of January A. D. 1879. we. the undersigned cit izens and qualified electors of said county, fov ourselves ard in behalf of all other citizeas and quail fled electors Of said county who are opposed to said change or removal will proceed to contest the result, as returned by thc Clerk of said Court, of the cleo. ton held in said county on the 2d day of September A. D. 1878, upon the several propositions thus sub. mitted to the qualified electors of said county, by the order of said court upon your petition to change or remove tue said county seat from the town of Dover; and te remove the same to the town of Russell,ille, and also to remove the same to the town of Atkins; and that upon com
 plaint. or petition then and there to be filed, we will move the said court to vacate and set aside said return and to adjudge and declare as the true result Of said election, that the sad proposition to change, or, re- move said county seat, was at sad election rejected, and you are fur ther notified that the grounds upon which we will make said motion and rely in contesting said election are the followsng, to.wit:
 First, That the said Clerk and the Justices associated with him in opening and comparing the poll books and returns of said election, and when there existed ho ..such informality" nor "any irregularty in anything on either of the said poll books or returns as "sent up" to said Clerk from the townships of Clark, Griffin and Independence, as prevented them from arriving at the true result Of said election Tn said townships, or the true intention of the voters thereof, unlawfully per mitted the judges and clerks of said election, after said poll-books had been according to law delivered to said clerk, to change and alter the same so as to return and show that ninety six votes were given for the change or removal of said election in said township of Clark; that twenty seven were so given in the township of Independence; and that eighty votes were so given in the township of Griffin; when in fact only sixteen votes in said township of Cla. k, two votes in said township of Independence, and twelve votes in said township of Griffin, were given for said change or removal as ap
 peared upon said pollbooks of said townships when the same were org, finally returned to said clerk; That at said election as held in the sever al townships of said county one hun dred and seventy five votes were given by ballots which had written or printed on them only the words flor Russellville" without any word whatever to indicate whether they were intended to be for oi against change of said County Seat; and that said ballots were un. lawfully counted and returned as having been given for said change.
 Thirdly; That at said election one hundred and ten votes were given by ballots which had written or printed upon them only the words 'for change" or flor removal of said County Seat, without any word to indicate any intention to vote foi either Atkins or Russellville, and that all said last mentioned votes were also received, counted and re. turned contrary to law, as so many votes legally given for the change or removal of said County Seat;
 Fourthly, That at said election two hundred and votes were given for the change, or removal of said County Seat by persons who we're not at the time of said election residents of the precincts, or town ships in which their said votes were SO given and had not resided in the same one month next preceding the said election, and were not therefore qualified electors and entitled to vote in the several townships where