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1 In re Impeachment of Charles Swayne 1 (1905)

handle is hein.congcourts/reimchsw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: .58TIk CONGRESS, IHOUSE OF REPRISENTAT IVES, REPORT 3d ,Sexion. No. 3477. IN RE IMPEACHMENT OF CHARLES SWAYNE. JANUARY 10i 1905.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Mr. PALMER, from the Select Committee on Charles Swayne Impeach- ment Case, submitted the following REPORT. The select committee appointed to prepare and report articles of impeachment against Charles Swayne, judge of the district court of the United States for the northern district of Florida, appointed December 13, 1904, submit the following report: That the evidence heretofore taken in the matter of the impeach- ment of Charles Swayne, judge of the district court of the United States in and for the northern district of Florida, sustains twelve articles of impeachment, which are submitted herewith with the recom- mendation that they be adopted by the House and exhibited to the Senate. Articles exhibited b. the Iouse of Representatives of the United States of America, in the name of themselves and of all the people of the United States of America against Charles Swayne, a judge o the United States, in and for the northern district of Florida, in mainte- nance and support of their impeachment against him for high crimes and misdemeanors in office. ARTICLE 1. That the said Charles Swayne, at Waco, in the State of Texas, on the 20th day of April, 1897, being then and there a United States district judge in and for the northern district of Florida, did then and there, as said judge, make and resent to R. M. Love, then and there being the United States marshal in and for the northern dis- trict of Texas, a false claim against the Government of the United States in the sum of $230, then and there knowing said claim to be false, and for the purpose of obtaining payment of safd false claim, did then and there as said judge, make and use a certain false certifi- cate then and there knowing said certificate to be false, said certificate being in the words and figures following: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Northern District of Texas, ss: I, Charles Swayne, district judge of the United States for the northern district of Florida, do hereby certify that I was directed to and held court at the city of Waco,

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