Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-11-02

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For the Middle Atlantic States colder
cloudy weather, light rain, northerly winds
and higher pressure.
TIE REGISTRATION APPEAL CASES. =
In the appeal cases from the registrars in
the lit and 4:h wards Yesterday. before
Judge Meade, it appearing that no notice
had been served upon the parties as the
law requires where right TO register was
The subject of contest, the effort to have
their names stricken from the registration
books under a ruling of the court, was
abandoned by the appellants. The point
Was made, however, that while :hc parties;
named might have been entitled to register,
Yet that, inasmuch Is they had not been re-
gstered i'll the exact mode the law contem-
plates, they were improperly and illegally
registered and therefore TO close the door
against such fraudulent modes of rcgistra-
ton, the nanes OF all parties not distinctly
entered upon the registration books at the
time they appeared and demanded to be re.
4istercd should be erased. The Judge held
that it was clearly the duty OF the registrars
tQ register all parties in the mode the law
evidently contemI!ates: that is, parties en-
titled TO be registered upon application TO
the registrar should have their names en-
tered directly upon the Registration books
and not taken down, rs in This t;isr unun Il
slip Of paper, and afterwards, aitht II IN with
in the time the law fixes rs llHit for re-
gistraton, copied upon the regular books ;
hut where parties entitled 10 registration APP
piled To the ,isi:ar 10 be registered, and
took the oath the law requires, and answer
cd satisfactorily all questions as TO their
right to register, such parties cannot DC de-
privcd OF their right 10 vote because OF any
iniormality upon the part OF the registrar in
recording their names, provided they were
recorded upon the registration books within
the time the law provides for the purposes
of registration. TO declare that Il mere in
tormalty upon the part of II registrar in re-
cording the name Of ii party demanding re-
gistration would he fatal TO the innocent
voter, would be TO throw wide open the
door for the easy preparation OF frauds by
enabling registrars to deprive voters by the
wholesale OF the right TO vote by some fail
IRE upon their part to comply strictly with
the forms of law The Judge also ruled that
Il new registration having been held in the
I'd and 4th wards, in conformity with the
law in cases where the old registration
books had been SO far destroyed as TO rem
der such new registration necessary, the
old books, or so much Of them rs might be
preserved, could no longer be used by the
Judges of election. but must he delivered to
The clerk q! the court for preservation. He
held that the Judges of election could have
but one set of hooks before them for their
guidance, and in answer TO the position,
taken by the Attorney General in late
letter to which his attention had been call
ed, wherein the Atty. Gen. saws THAT Il re-re-
Sistration oivotcrs may be ordered whcnthc
registrationb are lost or DESTROYED. the
purpose being to supply the loss or dcs;rlc-
tion, but where the original book remains in
existence, and the absent voter has regis
tered therein, and that fact can be verified
by the productioro Of the original book, then
! am of opinion that mere rercgistration Of
voters should not deprive the voter of his
right to vote in such case. 1t would be to
take an absent voter by surprise. who had
been registered in the original book of regis
tration and who had ITO notice of re- re. istra-
ton or opportunity TO avail himself of it, In
cases where voters are registered under for
mer registration, think they should be al
lowed their vote OH the 9Th Of November :
The Judge said with all Difference 10 the
evidently hastily written opinion OF the AT.
torncy, for whose legal opinion he had great
respect, hc WAS compelled to differ with him
and to rule otherwise According 10 this
al
had been ordered last winter BY the Legis-
lature n temporarily absent voter, upon the plea
of ignorance surprise who failed TO register
upon the day of election, might plead hi, Sur
prise aud want OF notice of registration 81 OPP
portunity to register and If his lame appeared
upon the od registration books he would he entitled
10 vote. To state the would DC To give this
answer. The new registration III the two wards
Of this city was full and complete as any the
Legislature could by special act provide for; it was
ordered by the Court because the old books were
technically destroyed" Ignorance cannot be
plead in excuse. The failure of parties to appear
and register was their fault misfortune as the
case may be. Certainly ample motto" hal been
given; the order of the new registration had
been made in July last, and all parties had indus
trlousy circulated the notice of the time for regis
tration which, by order OF the Court lasted for one
week. The new books must take the place OF the
old.
A NEW SCHOoN The schoonc,
Florence Randall arrived here this IN orning
from Bath, Ne. with cargo Of ice for the
Great Falls Ice Company, of Washington
The Randall, which will hail from New
Haven, is a new schooner just built at Bath
by Messrs. Goss 4 Sawyer, and this is he.
first trip. She is one of the handsomcst
schooners that ever entered this port, and is
fitted up in the most elegant and substantial
manner, her cabins, &c, being finished in
hard wood, beautifully carpeted and cur
tanned, and her saloon is as comfortable and
cosy rs paror She left Bath on the o3d
nit. and arrived ut the mouth of the river
two days ago, where she waited for tug.
Besides her cargo she brought the spars,
iron work and fixtures generally for the
new schooner that is being built at the yard
Of the Potomac Manufacturing Company OF
this city, which will be placed in position
in a short time; and after discharging them
she proceeded TO Washington.
THE MARYLAND FERRY BoAT.-At Il
meeting of the stockholders of the Alexan.
dria Ferry Company last night. w. W. Her,
bar ha ~, r.,