Investigation of the Question of the Right of Jl Edwad Roush Or George O. Chambers, Indiana-5th Cong. Diste... 87-11961 - 67 pages |
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10-day period 87th Congress absentee ballots accepted ANDERSON ASHMORE Blackford Blackford County BYER canvassing board CAREY cate certificate of election certificate of error certified statements Chairman CHAMBERLAIN Chambers circuit court clerk's office Clinton County Committee on House Committee To Investigate contest copy correction of errors counsel county clerks course December District of Indiana document duly elected Edward Roush evidence fact Fifth Congressional District Fifth District functus officio gentlemen Grant County HASLEY hearing House Administration House of Representatives Huntington County Investigate Campaign Expenditures Jay County JOHN LESINSKI laws of Indiana letter LIPSCOMB Madison matter McFALL mittee November 15 number of votes offered precinct present pursuant question received record recount referred Representative in Congress ROBERTS seal secretary of state's sent Special Committee state's office statute submit tally sheet tificate tion Tipton transcript U.S. REPRESENTATIVE voters Wabash
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Page 53 - Representatives shall make a roll of the Representatives elect, and place thereon the names of those persons, and of such persons only, whose credentials show that they were regularly elected in accordance with the laws of their States respectively, or the laws of the United States.
Page 2 - Said committee shall have the power to send for persons and papers, and the chairmen of said committees shall have the power to issue all process necessary to secure the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, ballot boxes and other documents before said committee, and such process shall be executed by the sergeant-at-arms of the house in which the contest...
Page 8 - ... or destroy the affidavit thereon and take out the ballot or ballots inclosed therein without unfolding or permitting the same to be unfolded or examined. The inspector shall then deliver such ballot or ballots to the clerks, who shall at once proceed to write their initials, above the signature of the clerk of the circuit court or the secretary of state as the case may be, in ink on the lower left-hand corner of the back of each of such ballots in their ordinary handwriting and without any distinguishing...
Page 53 - Representatives to which such State is entitled under this section. In case of a vacancy in the office of Clerk, or of his absence or inability to discharge this duty, then such duty shall devolve upon the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives; and in case of vacancies in the offices of both the Clerk and the Sergeant at Arms, or the absence or inability of both to act, such duty shall devolve upon the DoorKeeper of the House of Representatives.
Page 53 - States respectively, or the laws of the United States. In case of a vacancy in the office of Clerk of the House of Representatives, or of the absence or inability of the Clerk to discharge the duties imposed on him by law or custom relative to the preparation of the roll of Representatives or the organization of the House, those duties shall devolve on the Sergeant at Arms of the next preceding House of Representatives. In...
Page 26 - ... Representative or Delegate in the Congress of the United States shall be voted for * * * who shall * * * fraudulently make any false certificate of the result of such election in regard to such Representative or Delegate * * * shall be deemed guilty of a crime,
Page 53 - Arms, or of the absence or inability of both to act, the duties of the Clerk relative to the preparation of the roll of the House of Representatives or the organization of the House shall be performed by the Doorkeeper of the next preceding House of Representatives.
Page 8 - ... such erroneous certification. Should the clerk of the circuit court or the secretary of state fail or refuse to correct such error, the duty to make the correction may be enforced by an action in mandamus brought by any duly qualified voter within five days after the expiration of the ten day period allowed for making such corrections.
Page 61 - ... Systems. Carried." JERRY L. ANDERSON, Acting General Manager, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE UMATILLA ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION CERTIFICATE I, Harry Proudfoot, Secretary of Umatilla Electric Cooperative Association of Hermiston, Oregon, do hereby certify that the following is a true and correct excerpt from the Minutes of a meeting of...
Page 58 - WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the State of Indiana at the city of Indianapolis, this 28th day of March, 1947.