Mr. BROOKS. I Will proceed. Now, here in the 7th district of the 21st ward, there are 11 officers, under their solemn oaths, swearing to the verity of this election. 3 registrars, 3 inspectors, 3 can vassers, and two clerks a large majority of whom belong to the dominant party here and yet, by the evidence of Geo began and Myers, an effort is made to disfranc ise ever 400 voters in that district. In addition to all that, it will be found that the clerk of the olls, the clerk of the registrars of that district, lgcck man, was a Republican, who testified before the judge what his polities are, and that he did not vote for me; and he swears that everything was properly conducted there. Now, I put it to the justice and to the common sense of this House, and to its honor, if, upon any mere informality, 11 sworn officers of the election are to be overthrown and 400 odd voters utterlydisfranchised upon such worthless testimony as that of Myers and Geoghegan. But even if the whole vote of the 7th district of the 21st ward be thrown out, it does not change the result. Hence the great contest in this case is upon the 15th district of the 18th war, and upon that I propose to enlarge at some considerable length. The officerwf this district were, as they were in the other district, two Republican and one Democrat registrars, two Republican and one Democrat ins ectors, with a cpuhlican clerk. A great e ort has been made, and it has been argued so that the House now comre hends it, to show that the registrars must ive in the particular election district where they serve and it is argued that if they do not all live in the little election district where they serve, that district must be disfranchised, because the votes there were illegally received. Now, among legalgentle men there have been doubts upon the subject of what was the construction of the law in the case. There are doubts in the city of NewYork; but the pradtice on both sides has been, for instance, to select from the Republican districts their keen est and sharpest men as officers of the election to be sent into the Democratic districts, while the Democrats have taken from their districts their kcenest and sharpest men to send into the Republican election districts. Iphold in my hand the Proceedings of the NewYork Lflection Mr. Brooks. H0 or Bin s. Board of Supervisors of newYork for 1804, an official book, recognized by the law. Now, to show that this invariable practice has existed there, I propose to read a resolution presented by Supervisor Purdy. It is as follows: " SupervisorPurdy presenteda resolutiondisqual ifying inspectors of registry from serving in such capacity who ware appointed for districts in which they are not residents, and declaring their places vacant." No action was had upon the resolution. It was laid over; thus s owing that the super visors thought the custom was according to law; that they werecontent with the practical construction of the law there given, with the well known fact that Republicans were selected for the Democratic districts, and Democrats for Be publican districts. n addition to all that I hold in my hands numerous affidavits, to which I wish to call the special attention of the gentlemen on the other side of the House to show the construction given to this law. The construction given to it by the committee would not only throw me out, but it would threw out the contestant over and over again and for the district represented here by Hon. Mr. DARLHH}, the true Representative upon the floor of this House, under this construction, is not Mr. Danuxo, but Hon. Fernando Wood, and in the district represented by in honorable colleague to whom I am now a dressing myself, the same result would be shown. I desire to call particular attention to the 12th district of the 20 1st ward; that district gave Mr. Dodge 810 votes and Mr. Brooks 155 votes. The registrars of that district did not live in the district and did not vote in the district and that was the case with the 8th district of the 21st ward, which gave 197 votes for Dodge and 98 for Brooks, and the 14th district of the 21st ward, where the vote was 330 for Dodge and only 135 for Brooks. With these remarks I send one of these aflidavite to the Clerks desk, as a specimen of numerous other affidavits whichI have at my desk, and I ask that it be read.