Page v. Allen
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
These were two bills brought to July Term 1868, in the Supreme Court for the Eastern District, sitting in equity. Their object was to test the constitutionality of the Registry Law of the 4th of April 1868. The first was by James Page and others, citizens and voters of the commonwealth and residents in Philadelphia against James Allen and sixty-four others, Aldermen of the city of Philadelphia, to whom were afterwards added by amendment, Joseph N. Peirsol, Treasurer, and…
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These were two bills brought to July Term 1868, in the Supreme Court for the Eastern District, sitting in equity. Their object was to test the constitutionality of the Registry Law of the 4th of April 1868. The first was by James Page and others, citizens and voters of the commonwealth and residents in Philadelphia against James Allen and sixty-four others, Aldermen of the city of Philadelphia, to whom were afterwards added by amendment, Joseph N. Peirsol, Treasurer, and Joseph R. Lyndall, Controller of the city. The other bill was by Charles Robb and others, citizens,' &c., against Thomas A.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, July 2d 1868, by
Thompson, C. J.
The first of these bills was filed by the plaintiffs, residents, taxpayers and qualified voters of this city, against the defendants, the aldermen of the city, to restrain them from exercising certain powers and authority in their aggregate capacity; which, it is alleged, they claim to be conferred upon *345them by the provisions of an Act of Assembly, passed April 4th 1868, entitled “ A further supplement to the act relating to the elections of the commonwealth,” and from appointing or attempting to appoint canvassers as…
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