The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1911-01-07
Amended Application Filed
STATE OF NEVADA, &C
Gently of Eureka. %

STATE OF NEVADA, &C
Comfy of Eureka. 80
To the Honorable Board of County
Commissioners of Eureka County, Ne.
vada.
The undersigned, applicant and de-
mandent and petitioner. respectfully
applies, petitions and demands that the
said Board recount votes for the mem.
bers of the Assembly, cast at the fol-
lowing voting precincts. to wit Eu-
reka precinct No. /. Mineral Hill pre-
cinct No. 6, and Buckhorn precinct No.
10, at the election held on the 9Th day
Of November, 1910.
In support OF the said application,
petition, demand and request. the
undersigned makes the following af.
hdavit. and on oath deposes and says:
That it appears from the canvass by the
said Board Of the votes cast for legis-
lators at said Eureka County. Nevada,
at said election that w. +. Mau, a
candidate for Member of the Assembly
Of Nevada, had a majority OF less than
10 votes over your petitioner, applicant
and demandent, also a candidate for the
same office, to wit: A majority of
three votes. That the undersigned has
reason to believe and does believe that
mistakes were made and have been
made on the part of the inspectors aud
officers of election in the following pre-
cincts. to wit: Eureka precinct No. /.
Mineral Hill precinct No. 6, and Buck
horn precinct No. 10. sufficient to
change the result Of the vote for the
said Office of Member Of the Assembly
as between the said w. +. Mau and the
undersigned, and to give the under
signed a majority of votes over the said
w. f. Mau more specifically to state
such mistakes. at the said Eureka pre-
cinct No. l there were three or more of
such mistakes; at said Mineral Hill pre-.
cinct No. 6 one or more. and at said
Buckhorn precinct No. 10 six or more.
IL said mistakes at said three precincts
were corrected and the said votes SO
mistakenly counted for said w. F. Mau
were correctly and properly counted for
the undersigned, the undersigned would
be duly elected to said office, to wit
Member of the Assembly Of the State of
Nevada.
This affidavit. application request, petit
tion and demand are made as an amend.
mentand supplement- to the affidavit, APP
plication. request, petition and demand.
filed with the said Board by the under
signed for a recount. the same being
filed on. to wit: the 18th day of Novem .
Der, 1910, aud also as an additional af-
idavit. application. request, petition
and demand for such recount for said
Office of Member OF the Assembly Of the
State Of Nevada, and your petitioner
will ever pray. T. A. BURDIcK.
Commissioners Grant A Recount
A copy of the above petition was
served by Mr.. Burdick on the several
members Of the Board of County Com.
m~issioners on the evening of January 5.
and the Board met January 6 at l o.
clock p. m. for the purpose of consider
ing the petition of Mr.. Burdick for a re-
count.
Attorney A. L. Fitzgerald appeared
for Mr.. Burdick and stated that in his
opinion the Board could Immediately
proceed to recount the billots in the
several precincts cited by Mr.. Burdick.
District Attorney MoParlin stated
that he was still Of the same opinion
which he gave to the Board when Mr..
Burdick previously asked for a recount;
and said further, that the Board having
adjourned to January is. coald not
take the matter mp without advertising
one week for the purLose OF calling a
special meeting. However. as Ernest
Mau. brother Of William Mau, who had
received q majority Of three votes and
had been granted q certificate of cleo
ton by the Board was present at the