The daily gazette., 1880-12-08

A~oh' uAb JHo OHCerH charged with
the duty OF assessing persons and pro-
perty for taxation under the laws of
the State of Delaware, have persist
emily and unlawfully refused, neglect
cd and omitted to place upon the
assessment lists large number, to
wit, at least one thousand legal and
Qualified voters, thereby unlawfully
depriving them being legal voters Of
the State Of Delaware, Of their right
OF suffrage, and who, il they had
been assessed, as they might legally
have been, would at said election
given their votes for me for Repre-
sentative as aforesaid.
18th. That the officers charged
with the duty of collecting taxes un-
der the laws of the State Of Delaware,
have persistently and unlawfully re-
fused, neglected and omitted to re-
ceive the taxes from large number,
to wit: at least one thousand of legal
and qualified voters in the State of
Delaware, therefore unlawfully de-
priving them of their right of suff-
rage, and who, if they had been
allowed to have paid their taxes, as
they ought properly to have been,
would at said election given their vote
for me for Representative in Congress
as aforesaid.
14th. That the persons and officers
charged with the duty of collecting
taxes under laws of the State of Della
ware, have improperly and unlawful
ly refused, omitted and neglected to
return to the LevyCourts of the several
counties of this State as delinquents,
large number to wit At least one
thousand OF persons who had failed
and neglected to pay their taxes as
required by the laws of the State of
Delaware, and who at the late election
gave their votes for you unlawfully,
and who if they had been returned as
delinquents, as they ought to have
been, would not have been entitled to
vote.
10th. That the persons and officers
charged with the duty of collecting
taxes under the laws of the State Of
Delaware have improperly and illegal
| ly given TO a large number, to wit : at
least one thousand persons in the
State Of Della ware, who voted for you
at the said election, tax receipts, pre-
tending to show that said persons had
paid their taxes, where as in fact such
taxes had not been paid by said per-
sons, and that they were not lawfully
entitled to vote.
IS. That the persons and officers
charged with the duty of collecting
taxes, under the Laws of said State of
Delaware, have contrary to the Laws of
sald State in that behalf, and after the
expiration Of more than two years, from
the date of their warrants for the col
lection of taxes respectively, improperly,
fraudulently and illegally received taxes
from a large number Of persons, to wit !:
from more than one thousand persons
who at said election unlawfully voted
for you for Representative in Congress
and who were not legally entitled to
vote at said election:
u. That the persons and officers
charged with the duty of assessing prop
erty and persons under the laws Of said
| State of Delaware, have improperly,
wroEgfully and Illegally, with the view
and for the purpose OF depriving of their
right of suffrage large number, to wit,
more than one thousand legal and quail
fled voters of said State who would
have voted for me at the late election
| for Representative as aforesaid, made
additions, alterations and changes in the
assessment lists Of the several Hundreds
and Counties of said State SO as to
| change the Identity of the persons who
we're really assessed, in fact, thereby
unlawfully and fraudulently depriving
them of their right TO vote for me FOL
Representative as aforesaid.
l8. That the persons and Officers
charged with the duty of assessing per-
sons and property under the laws Of
said State of Delaware while pretend
ing to assess the right persons have
wrongtully and illegally, purposely mis-
spelled and made improper additions tC
the names OF the persons entered upon
the assessment lists and thereby wrong.
fully excluded from their right of suf-
frage large number, to wit more thar
one thousand legal and qualified Voter'
of SAID State at the late election wh(
would have voted for me for Represent
| alive as aforesaid.
10Th. That the several assessors In thu
| saveral hundreds of the State of Dela
ware.and the Levy Court Commissioners
spectively constituting the Levy Cour
of the se yeral counties OF the state
Delaware, and the several collectors o
laxes in the several hundreds or I'M
state of Delaware. have by their unlaw
fpj ac,s and doipgs improperly AM
wropgfully deprived, excluded and de
barred of their right of suffrage,
large number, to wit; more than on
Thousand legally qualified electors OF tn
state of Delaware, and who by the nn
lawful acts and doiugs OF the salu AS
SCISSORS. Levy Court Commissioners ant
COLLECTORS of Taxes, were prevente'
from voting at the said late election, am
who If they had been permitted TO nav
been assessed, would have been entitie
10 have voted at the said elecuoh am
would at said election have given thel
votes for me for Repre- sentative in Con
gress as aforesaid.
Goth. That the Election Officers In tn
several Hundreds and Election District
within the State of Delaware, at the sal
lats electlon) uDjustly and unlawfully di'
| criminated between the legally qnanne
voters who offered their votes at the SAL
late election, in thus that every wnit
voter who offered to vote alleging tha
he was between twenty-one and twenty
two years Of age was permitted 10 glv'
his ballot upon his own oath that he W.
above the age of twenty-one years an
under the age of twenty-five years; bt
that every person of African descen
who offered to vote az the said late ele'
tiop allegiu that he was between twent.
( one aud twenty.two years OF age, ",
reouIred to furnish other proof In au1
f | tion 10 his oath that he was ABOVE tn
ace of twenty-one and under the age