Excerpt from Testimony Taken Before the Special Committee on Investigation of the Election in Florida: Appointed Under Resolution of the House of Representatives, Forty-Fourth Congress, December 4, 1878 Q. Were you appointed to any position - A. I was appointed by the board as an inspector out there; I was appointed by the board of county commissioners. I saw my name on the list. It said to be there as an inspector of elections at that school-house. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Hearings were issued as S. Rpt. 44-611, part 2. Florida state documents which contain election returns from each county and sworn affidavits from numerous election officials and individual citizens begin on microfiche No. 6 of 11 (p. 1-509). Dec. 15, 18-21, 23, 25, and 27, 1876 hearings were held in Tallahassee, Fla.; Dec. 27-30, 1876 and Jan. 2, 3, 21, 1877 hearings were held in Jacksonville Fla.; Jan. 5, 6, 8-11, 1877 hearings were held in Gainesville, Fla.