The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-12-27

| tionments: that they have been SO recog-
nized and treated in the several townships;
wards and precincts 10 the SAID seVerai
districts, by the judges aud CLERKS OF cleo
ton in receiving. counting anu returning
| the ballots aud results OF the SAID several
elections in the said county, TO the ooara
! of canvassers of the county OF Sed2wick I;
| that they have been so recognized and
| treated by the said canvassing board IN
| canvassiug the returns and declaring the
| result of SAID elections, and ordering GER
| tificates of election to be issued 70 the said
commissioners herein before mentioned
and elected in the said districts since the
said apportionment, and that they nave
| been SO treated and recognized by the
county clerk in issuing certificates OF
election TO the said several county COM
missioners elecisd as aforesaid.
| That the said representative districts in
| the said county OF Sedgwick are consti-
tutsd by the said apportionments hereiu-
! before mentioned, have been fully recog-
niz.d and treated as commissioner dis
/ tricts By the board of county commits
| sioners of the said county OF Sedgwick.
since the year 1856, in all acts and things
done and performed by them as commits
/ sioners as aforesaid; that the said county
| com missioners have at numerous ana At
divers times entered upon the proceed.
| iugs and book of record OK the board OF
! county commissioners sucn recognition,
| aud have declared said representative dis
tricts as constituted by said apportion-
meuts to be commissioned districts as pro-
yided by law: aud the said board OF county
commissioners of the said county OF Sedg-
wick have so treated aud recognized the
said apportionmenr and so treated and
recognized the representative districts as
commissioner districts under the said act
of 1871. having in spirit and contemDia-
ton of law constituted and apportioned
the said representative districts as COM
missioner districts and have so declared
| the same.
Wherefore by reason of all the matters
and things above stated, he said T. Webb,
coutestee, that at the election held as afore
said on the 7th day of November. 1873, he
was duly elected as a commissioner Tor the
said county Of Sedgwck IN the said dis
trct; that the said Calvin II. Shaup was
not elected that the said b. Webb contes-
tee is entitled to enter upon the discharge
of his les of the said office without mo-
lestation let or hindrance, and that any
attempt or the said Calvin II. Shaup or
Others, to interfere with this peacable dis
charge OF the said Office Is without war
rant or authority In law.
The said f. Webb contestee, therefore
asks that the claim and pretence of the
said Calvin H. Shaup may be wholly dis
regarded, that the said contest may be
dismissed, and that he may be permitted
TO enter upon the discharge OF his duties
of his said Office without further interior
ence or embarrassment.
HALLowELL & HALLOwELL,
STANLEY & HUME,
Attorneys for +. Webb. contestee.
STATE OF KANSAS, lss
SEDGwICK COUNTY.
f. Webb being first duly sworn upon
his oath says:
That he is the contestee mentioned in
the foregoing answer; that he has read the
foregoing answer and knows the contest
ants thereof, and that the allegations.
matters and things contained therein are
true, as this afiiant is informed and verify
believes e. WEBB
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
26th day Of December 1898.
[sFALl NJ. A. CARvIN,
County Clerk.