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HOGE vs. REED.

MARCH 30, 1869.-Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.

Mr. PAINE, from the Committee of Elections, made the following

REPORT.

The Committee of Elections, to whom was referred the case of S. L. Hoge vs. J. P. Reed, from the 3d congressional district of the State of South Carolina, in obedience to the following resolution of the House of Represen.. tatives, adopted March 22, 1869—

Resolved, That in all contested election cases referred to the Committee of Elections, in which it shall be alleged by a party to the case, or a member of the House, that either claimant is unable to take the oath prescribed in the act approved July 2, 1862, entitled "An act to prescribe an oath of office, and for other purposes," it shall be the duty of the committee to ascertain whether such disability exists; and if such disability shall be found to exist, the committee shall so report to the House, and shall not further consider the claim of the person so disqualified without the further order of the House; and no compensation will be allowed by the House to any claimant who shall have been ineligible to the office of Representative to Congress at the time of the election, and whose disability shall not have been removed by act of Congress-

submit the following report:

It was alleged in writing before the committee by said S. L. Hoge, that said J. P. Reed could not take the oath prescribed in the act entitled "An act to prescribe an oath of office, and for other purposes," approved July 2, 1862. The committee thereupon, in obedience to said resolution, inquired into the said charge; and, upon the written admission of said Reed contained in his answer to the notice of contest in this case, have found and do report to the House, that J. P. Reed, claiming the right to represent the 3d congressional district of the State of South Carolina in this house, is unable to take the oath of office prescribed in the said act of July 2, 1862.

1st Session.

No. 4.

HUNT vs. SHELDON.

MARCH 31, 1869.-Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.

Mr. STEVENSON, from the Committee of Elections, made the following

REPORT.

The Committee of Elections, to whom were referred the credentials of persons claiming seats in this house as representatives from the State of Louisiana, with the letter of the governor, and the report of the committee of investigation of the legislature of that State, with instructions to ascertain the right of such peasons, and to inquire into the validity of the election for members of the 41st Congress, in the several congressional districts of said State on the 3d day of November, A. D. 1868, and also to inquire whether the persons claiming to have been elected in such districts are qualified under the Constitution and laws to take seats as members of this house, submit the following report upon the claim of Lionel Allen Sheldon to a seat as representative from the 2d congressional district of Louisiana:

In accordance with the laws of Louisiana, on the 3d day of November, A. D. 1868, in the 2d congressional district of that State, an election was held for a representative of the district in the 41st Congress. The only candidates for that office were Lionel Allen Sheldon and Caleb S. Hunt. On the 25th day of November, A. D. 1868, the governor of Louisiana issued the following certificate:

STATE OF LOUISIANA, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

To all to whom these presents may come:

New Orleans, November 25, 1868.

Know ye that, in accordance with the laws of the State of Louisiana, an election was held by the qualified electors of this State, on the 3d day of November, A. D. 1868, for five members of Congress, to represent the 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, and 5th congressional districts of the State of Louisiana in the 41st Congress of the United States, and for one member of Congress from the 2d congressional district to the 40th Congress, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of the Hon. James Mann.

And whereas the returns of said election, made to the secretary of state, as required by law, have been carefully examined, compared, and attested by the proper officers whose duty it was to examine the same;

And whereas it has been ascertained from said returns that Lionel Allen Sheldon received 5,108 votes, and Caleb S. Hunt 2,833 votes cast at said election:

Now, therefore, I, Henry C. Warmoth, governor of the State of Louisiana, do hereby certify that Lionel Allen Sheldon received a majority of the votes cast for representatives to the 41st Congress from the 2d congressional district of the State of Louisiana.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the State to be affixed this 5th day of November, in the year of our Lord 1868, and of the independence of the United States the ninety-third.

[SEAL.]

GEO. E. BOVEE,

Secretary of State.

H. C. WARMOTH, Governor of the State of Louisiana.

The provision of law under which the governor acted in issuing the above certificate is section 30 of “An act relative to elections in the

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