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election.
 Wherefore. your petitioner prays that before any canvass be made of the votes cast for said office in said election, the said ballot boxes from tue precincts named herein and any other boxes In which there may be illegal votes, be purged of such ille- : gal votes; that your petitioner he al lowed and have counted for him the one vote mentioned which he was entitled to receive but which was re- fused him, and that the canvass of the vote be made after such illegal votes are stricken and said vote and other votes allowed me.
 Respectfully,
 EDGAR BREWSTER
 The result of the count was an nounced as follows: Sorrells, ,O60;s Martin, l,0lO; Brewster, 756, Mccoy. 757, Phillips 556
 Mr. Murray then offered the fol lowing resolutions:
 Whereas, By q re-cauvass of the returns of the various wards and townships of the county, of the votes cast at the primary election held in this county June lG. 1898. 1t was found by this committee that H. 4. McGoy received 757 votes, and Edgar Brewster received 75G votes, and Thomas M. Phillips received 55G votes for sheriff Of said county; Me Coy having received one vote more than Edgar Brewster, the next leaa- ing candidnt:
 Therefore, be it Resolved, By the Democratic Central Committee of Jefferson county. that H. A. Mccoy be, and he is hereby declared to be the regularly legally nominated l Democratic candidate for Sheriff of said county; that the Chairman and Secretary of this committee sO certi- fy the same, and that his name be placed on the ballot to be voted at the general election to be held in this county September ,, 1898, as the regular and only Democratic candI- date for Sheriff of said county.
 Hon. J. W. Crawford then offered the following substitute which was adopted by the vote of 13 to II:
 Whereas, q petition of contest has been filed with this committee charg ing that at the Democratic Primary election held in Jefferson County, Arkansas, on June 10th, 1898, certain negro Republicans were allowed to vote in Richland township, and that said negro Redublicans voted in said election for H. A. Mccoy for Sheriff, and also that there were other ile- gal votes cast for contestee in other townships, and that by reason of the casting and counting of such ne- gro Republican votes for said Mccoy, he has majority of one vote only, and that if said negro Republican votes had not been cast and counted for him, he would not have received more votes than contestant;
 Now, therefore, in order that jus tice may be done, and that It may not go out to the Democrats of Jefferson County and the world that the Democrats of this county permit negro Republicans to participate in their primaries and to control in . their nominations: s a-
 Resolved: That said contest shall be heard by this committee, and the said contestant Is hereby authorized to take proof in the form of depo. sitions to establish the allegations of his petition, said dispositions to be taken upon such notice as is required in suits at law, and that contestee be also permitted to take depo- sitions upon like notice to refute the charges and to show any illegal votes that may have been east and counted against him,fa that such proof be brought before this eomzs. mittee for its hearing on the 18th day of July, 1898, At which time this com mittee Shall re-asSemDle III flne Bluff to hear the proof and deter mine the result; and, further, that each party have the right to ex- anime the original poll books and ballots In the presence of the chair man or secretary Of this comm ittee. or of County Clerk Flanders, and of one of the adverse parties to the contest or his recognized attorney.
 A motion was then made to cer- tify the result for prosecuting attor- ney to the Judicial convention, which was carried.
 The committee then adjourned to meet July l2.