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.…
1Dissent
Agnew, J.,
dissenting. — The purpose of these bills is to restrain, by injunction, the aldermen, councils, commissioners, controller and treasurer of the city of Philadelphia from carrying into execution any part of the act for the registration of electors, passed the 4th of April 1868. They assume that the entire law is unconstitutional and void. The general scheme of the act is this: The aldermen of the city are constituted a board for the appointment of three persons called canvassers, who shall not all belong to any one party, for each election division of the city. It is the duty of the…
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