Reports of Committees: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 48th Congress, 2nd Session, Volume 5 |
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... difference to us of thirty or forty votes if those men voted our ticket . I do not think that this intimidation is carried on in all the mills there ; there is some difference between them in that respect ; I think that in the Social ...
... difference to us of thirty or forty votes if those men voted our ticket . I do not think that this intimidation is carried on in all the mills there ; there is some difference between them in that respect ; I think that in the Social ...
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... difference of opinion on that subject . Q. A great many think that they may honestly buy a man's vote by paying his poll - tax ? -A . Yes . Mr. BLAIR . I understand the witness's answer to be that there is an honest difference of ...
... difference of opinion on that subject . Q. A great many think that they may honestly buy a man's vote by paying his poll - tax ? -A . Yes . Mr. BLAIR . I understand the witness's answer to be that there is an honest difference of ...
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... difference of opinion among people , whether it is or not advis able for others than the taxpayer to pay the poll tax , or whether it would not be better to require the payment to be made by him alone . You do not mean to be understood ...
... difference of opinion among people , whether it is or not advis able for others than the taxpayer to pay the poll tax , or whether it would not be better to require the payment to be made by him alone . You do not mean to be understood ...
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... difference between the vote of the city of Worcester at the election of November , 1877 , and that at the election of 1878 ? —A . We carried the city of Worcester in 1877 with about the same majority that we had in 1878. I was chairman ...
... difference between the vote of the city of Worcester at the election of November , 1877 , and that at the election of 1878 ? —A . We carried the city of Worcester in 1877 with about the same majority that we had in 1878. I was chairman ...
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... difference in the result in your town in the election of November , 1878 , from what it was in Novem- ber , 1877 - A . I think there was . Q. What was the difference ? -A . I think there was a gain for the Republican ticket . Q. You ...
... difference in the result in your town in the election of November , 1878 , from what it was in Novem- ber , 1877 - A . I think there was . Q. What was the difference ? -A . I think there was a gain for the Republican ticket . Q. You ...
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Page 36 - ... and who shall have paid, by himself or his parent, master, or guardian, any state or county tax, which shall, within two years next preceding such election, have been assessed upon him, in any town or ^district of this Commonwealth ; and also, every citizen who shall be by law exempted from taxation, and who shall be in all other respects qualified as above mentioned...
Page 10 - Register to keep all accounts of the receipts and expenditures of the public money, and of all debts due to or from the United States...
Page 36 - English language, and write his name: provided, however, that the provisions of this amendment shall not apply to any person prevented by a physical disability from complying with its requisitions, nor to any person who now has the right to vote, nor to any persons who shall be sixty years of age or upwards at the time this amendment shall take effect.
Page 36 - No person shall have the right to vote, or be eligible to office under the constitution of this commonwealth, who shall not be able to read the constitution in the English language, and write his name: provided, however, that the provisions of this amendment shall not.
Page 7 - Government shall at all times have the preference in the use of said railroad and telegraph therefor at fair and reasonable rates of compensation, not to exceed the rates paid by private parties for the same kind of service.
Page 6 - Treaty; and all claims, with the like exception, on the part of Corporations, Companies, or private individuals, subjects of Her Britannic Majesty, upon the Government of the United States, arising out of acts committed against the persons or property of subjects of Her Britannic Majesty...