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4 Proceedings in the Matter of the Contested Election of Osbourn vs. Devlin, before the Committee on Elections of the Senate of Pennsylvania 1889

handle is hein.trials/aazw0004 and id is 1 raw text is: 2257 any tax receipt or not. My son brought them home. I don't know whether he bought them or what he did; he brought two of them. He is a voter, too. My son gave me one of those two that he brought home. Q. Was not that in the year 1886? A. No; it was before the last election. Q. What has become of that tax receipt? A. I could not find it. I did not pay anything for it, directly. Maybe my son paid for it, I do not know. I did not pay him for it. I believe it was a good receipt-certainly it was a good one. I cannot remember when I last saw that receipt. I cannot remember the day on which I got it; it was just in time before the last Presidential election. I mislaid it. I claimed the right to vote on the tax receipt that I got from my son before the election, and voted on it. If I had not got it I would not have voted. By Mr. Gendell. I accepted that receipt as a receipt for my taxes. I may yet find it. Mr. GENDELL. We have a record of it, viz : No. 129,703. (The number of the ballot is 123.) JOHN D. LAVERTY, sworn. By Mr. Dittman. I reside at No. 1243 North Second street, and have resided there nearly'eleven years. I voted for a person for State Senator at the last November election. I had paid a State or county tax within two years plior to that time. Here is a tax receipt.. (Witness produces amercantile taxreceipt, which is returned tohim. He also produces a poll tax receipt, as follows: No, 130,029; Fifth division, Seventeenth ward. Philadelphia, 10, 6, 1888. Received of J. D. Laverty, fifty cents for personal taxes for 18,8. Louis GoodaX, for receiver of taxes.) Mr. DITTMAN. I offer the receipt in evidence and ask that it be impounded. This tax receipt is the one upon which I claimed the right to vote at the last election. It is the only tax on which I claimed that right. I do not know a man named John Shaefer residing in the Fourteenth division of the Seventeenth ward. I did not pay for this receipt. Q. Who gave you this tax receipt? A. I can hardly tell you that. I know that on Saturday. the last day to receive them, a young man told me he would get one. I told him to get one for me, and I would pay him. When he brought it he said he wouldn't take anything for it. Q. What was the name of that young man-Lanning? 142

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