Case of Supervisors of Election
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition under St. 1873, c. 376, § 1, for the appointment of supervisors of election. The petition was signed by five legal voters of Ward 3 in the city of Boston, and was in the following words: “ To the Honorable the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court, holden at Boston, within and for the county of Suffolk.
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Petition under St. 1873, c. 376, § 1, for the appointment of supervisors of election. The petition was signed by five legal voters of Ward 3 in the city of Boston, and was in the following words: “ To the Honorable the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court, holden at Boston, within and for the county of Suffolk. “ Respectfully represent the undersigned, being five legal voters of Ward Three in said city of Boston, that they desire to have the election of state and county officers, to be held in said ward on the fourth day of November next, guarded and scrutinized as provided in the 376th…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, C. J.
This application is made under the St. of 1873, c. 376, § 1, which provides as follows : “ Whenever, prior to an election, five legal voters of any ward of a city shall make known in writing to a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, in term *248time or vacation, their desire to have such election guarded and scrutinized, it shall be the duty of such justice, upon such notice as he shall deem meet, or without notice, prior to such election, to appoint and commission two legal voters of such ward, who shall be of different political parties, and shall be known and designated as supervisors of…
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