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![handle is hein.trials/cocudio0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 47TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. MIs. Doc.
1st Session. No. 26.
COOK vs. CUTTS.
PAPERS AND TESTIMONY
IN THE CONTESTED ELECTION CASE OF
J. C. COOK vs. M. E. CUTTS,
FROM THE SIXTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF IOWA.
JANUARY 16, 1882.-Ordered to be printed.
No. ..
Notice of contest.
To the Hon. M. E. CUTTs:
Please take notice that I shall contest, and do contest and dispute,
your right to hold in the Forty-seventh Congress of the United States
a seat as Representative from the sixth Congressional district of Iowa,
claiming that the undersigned was duly elected to such office, and deny-
ing that you was elected at the general election held in November, 1880.
The grounds of such contest are the following, to wit:
First. In Monroe County, in said district, the county canvassers did
not include in the canvass made the votes cast in two townships or
voting precincts, in which two townships the undersigned received a
majority of ninety-two votes legally cast and returned to them.
Second. That, as appears from the returns duly certified to and on
file in the office of the board of State canvassers of Iowa from said dis-
trict, two votes cast for John Cook and five votes cast for Cook
should, and, of right, ought to be, counted for the undersigned-no
other person by the name of Cook having been at said election a
candidate for said office, and it having been the intention of the voters
casting said ballots, and each of them, to vote for the undersigned.
Third. That in Madison Township, in Mahaska County, being in said
district, one vote cast for the undersigned, and intended to be cast for
the undersigned, for Representative in Congress, was omitted from the
count by the judges and clerks of election of said township.
Fourth. That in Independence Township, Jasper County, one vote
cast for M. E. Butts was counted as a vote for M. E. Cutts.
Fifth. That in Davis County one vote cast, and by the voter intended
to be cast, for J. C. Cook [being the undersigned] for Representative
in Congress, was not counted for the undersigned, as it should have
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