Mr. DAWES. I have been laboring a good while to get to the point. The gentleman has very properly manifested his impatience: I do not wonder at it; but if he will bear with me, I will reach, by regular approaches, the point which he has suggested. I have stated. sir, that the board was not constituted according to law. They deemed it necessary to have a clerk. They appointed a man as clerk who took the oath prescribed, but bein desirous to furnish business for his brother, a lubltimted his brother for himself, and his brother performed the duties, without appointment or qualification, and received the compensation of clerk. The law requires the board to meet “at the place designated for holding the poll of said election, ” but no place for holding this election had as yet been designated, and no notice had been given to the electors of the district of the place where the board of registry would meet. They selected their own place of meeting, but gave no notice to the e ectors of where they might be heard. They met at the liquor store of James Thompson, the place subsequently designated, on the 3d of November, after their meetin s had been by law closed, as the place for holing the election. At their meeting on the 1st day, no further business was done except the organization of the board. Dougherty then left, and was not present at any further meetings of the board. Hall came the next day, and remained till ten oclock, and then left till 4. He was an employee of the customhouse, and left at the hour e was called to the discharge of the duties there, ten oclock, and did not return till 4,when he returned, s ending several hours in the evening. He did t ie same on the 3rd day, though the law allowed but 2 days for this meeting. Cowen, the remaining register, was sometimes present when Hall was there, and sometimes not; he also left on several occasions in Halls absence, thus leaving the entire duty of the board to be discharged by the self constituted clerk, Andrew Brady. he names were entered u.on the registr; some taken from the poll book of the old 12th district, others, to the number of 200 or more, were taken from time to time by James Thompson, the keeperof the liquor store, and by him entered upon an old account book as persons called at his store. This list of names upon the account book was furnished by him to the registers, and the names transcribed by Brady upon the registry; others were entered, some by Hall when alone, some by Cowen when alone, and some by Brady, in the absence of both, and some by Thompson, the keeperof the shop. Persons came into the liquor shop, and, in the absence of the board, entered their own and such other names as they pleased upon the registry. One of the registers accused this Brady of entering names purposely with wrong residences, and otherwise erroneousl. In this manner was made up what was calle and used as the registry of voters at this precinct. From the evidence it appeared that scarcely a quarter of those whose names were upon this register appeared personally before the board, and very few of the names entered upon the reis t]? were entered in the presence or by order O more than one of the socalled registers.