Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1881-12-08


ing Of the commission of Hon. John B.
Brooke az associate Judge Of this Judi
cial district has been deferred for the
present by Gov. Hamil ton in conse-
qaence Of the following protest filed
by Judge Chew with his Excellency
against issuing the same. The protest
is substantially as follows:
"The Petitioner alleges that there
was novalid legal registration of voters
in the first election district of Calvert
county, viz: That the pretended reg
istration on which the elections in the
two precincts in fhlt district were held
was not taken or made by the duly
appointed officer Of registration, but
made by some Te-son deputized or ap-
pointed by the officer of registration
for that purI ose; that the election
held in the said two precincts was
wholly null and void for want of prop
er and valid regis ration, and ought
to have been excluded by the return
judges; that if the votes pretended to
have been cast at the said precincts
were excluded from the count the pc
titioner would have a majority of the
legal votes cast IN the county over the
said Brooke. The contestant respect
fully asks his Excellency to correct the
enumeration of the votes shown to
have been cast at the said election BIZ
excluding all the votes returned from
the first district Of Calvert ~county,
and issue the commission to him, or to
withhold the same from j. B. Brooke
until the merits Of his claim can be
tested and settled. Another cause for
complaint is that there was no valid
election held at st. Leonard's precinct,
| (second, in the first district, where
it is claimed two of the judges Of cleo
ton were disqualified to act as such
judges by reason Of their holding Off
ces of profit and trust, and one Of the
judges was appointed by name diff
ferent from his real name. He also
shows and states that when the voters
assembled at the place of election,
finding that there were no qualified
judges competent to act and hold the
election, three justices of the peace
were duly sworn to act as judges, and
while so acting and holding said cleo
ton, N. W. Broome and one of the
pretended judges came to the place
where the election was being held by
the said justices of the peace, and by
force and violence seized the regis
tration list there being used by the
said justices and carried the same
away against the consent and remon-
strate of said Justices, and illegally
proceeded to hold the pretended cleo
ton, the returns of which were after
wards made by the said Broome at
the meeting of the return judges for
ascerSaining and casting up the vote
of the said district, all which the Pc
titioner relies upon as reason for ex-
GLIDING the votes cast at the st. Leon
ards precinct, and by which exclu-
sion, as the retufns will show, the
contestant would haye more legal
votes IN the county ana intheseventh
circuit than John B. Brooke. The
petition declares further, that the GER
tifcate sent to your Excellency BY the
return judges ef election in Calvert
county does not embrace any returns
of election held in the third district
of said county. although the certif-
cate psTports TO be signed by one
Frank Owings as return Judge of cleo
ton in that district. Ii there was no
election in that district, the certificate
signed by al the judges does not show
the fact nor state whether and why
no election was there held, if such be
the fact. The voters in that district
number more than one-third Of the
vote Of the county. and it is apparent
were sufficient to have changed the
result, and ought to beinclnGed in the
count. The returns Of Calvert coun-
~ are not duly certified 10 your Ex-
celleEey in conformity witls law, which
requires that the statement and certi-
iicate Of the return Judges shall show
the whole vote of all the districts Of
the county. Unless the Governor can
ascertain from the face Of the certifi-
cate that an election was. held in CAL
vert county and certified as required
BY law, no commission can. be issued
20 the said John ID. Brooke, nor can
the certificate be,returned 70 the re-
turn judges fog correction. for they
are now tsmeh o6Sesc.
THE petitioner insists that the GER
tificates of the returns from The coun-
ties IN the seventh judicial circuit do