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1860 Voter's Registry of Hall County
This page is a statement and list of certified voters in Hall County, Nebraska.
Sworn & Certified Voter's Registry Statement
This is a sworn disposition that was certified by the county’s recorder as acting county clerk based on Frederick Hedde’s statement.
GRAND ISLAND CITY,
Hall County, Nebraska Territory, October 16, 1860.
To his excellency the governor of Nebraska:
SIR: As acting county clerk of Hall county, Nebraska Territory, I, the undersigned recorder of said county, in the presence of the two undersigned householders, have canvassed the votes cast at the election held on the 9th day of October, A. D. 1860, in the county of Hall, Nebraska Territory, and have found the following to be the result:
At said election there have been cast for delegate to Congress twenty-nine (29) votes, of which Samuel G. Daily received twentynine (29) votes.
THEODORE NAGEL,
County Recorder, acting as County Clerk.
We, the undersigned householders, certify that the votes cast at the above said election have been canvassed in our presence and that the above is a true return.
AUG. SCHERNECKAN.
HEINRICH GIESE.
Copy of records.
I.
Poll-book kept at an election held at the house of Peter Stuhr, in Grand Inland precinct, Hall county, Nebraska Territory, on the 9th day of October, 1860.
On the 9th day of October, A. D. 1860, at the time for opening the polls, none of the judges of election appointed to act at the above said election were present; the present electors therefore chose the following three qualified persons from their number to act as judges of election, to wit: George Schultz, Christian Gutschow, and Hans Stuhr.
Then the following oath was administered to the same:
I, George Schultz, do solemnly swear that I will impartially and to the best of my knowledge and ability perform the duties of judge of this election, and will studiously endeavor to prevent fraud, deceit, and abuse in conducting the same.
GEORGE SCHULTZ.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 9th day of October, A. D. 1860.
FREDERICK HEDDE,
Probate Judge for Hall County.
I, Christian Gutschow, do solemnly swear that I will impartially and to the best of my knowledge and ability perform the duties of judge of this election, and will studiously endeavor to prevent fraud, deceit, and abuse in conducting the same.
CHRISTIAN GUTSCHOW.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 9th day of October, 1860.
FREDERICK HEDDE,
Probate Judge for Hall County.
I, Hans Stuhr, do solemnly swear that I will impartially and to the best of my knowledge and ability perform the duties of judge of this election, and will studiously endeavor to prevent fraud, deceit, and abuse in conducting the same.
HANS STUHR.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 9th day of October, A. D. 1860.
FREDERICK HEDDE,
Probate Judge for Halt County.
Then the clerks of election, elected by said judges, were sworn:
I, Theodore Nagel, do solemnly swear that I will impartially and to the best of my knowledge and ability perform the duties of clerk of this election, and will studiously endeavor to prevent fraud, deceit, and abuse in conducting the same.
THEODORE NAGEL.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 9th day of October, A. D. I860.
FREDERICK HEDDE,
Probate Judge for Hall County.
I, Peter Stuben, do solemnly swear that I will impartially and to the best of my knowledge and ability perform the duties of clerk of this election, and will studiously endeavor to prevent fraud, deceit, and abuse in conducting the same.
PETER STUBEN.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 9th day of October, A. D. 1860.
FREDERICK HEDDE,
Probate Judge for Hall County.
At the above election, held at the house of Peter Stuhr, in the Grand Island precinct of Hall county, Nebraska Territory, on the 9th day of October, A. D. 1860, there were twenty-nine ballots cast for the office of delegate to Congress, of which Samuel G. Daily had 29 votes; twenty-nine votes for representative in the house of the territorial legislature, of which Frederick Hedde had 29 votes ; twenty-nine votes for one county commissioner, of which D. B. Crocker had 29 votes; twenty-nine votes for another county commissioner, of which Augustus Scherneckan had 29 votes; and twenty-nine votes for justice of the peace, of which Lawrence Barnard had 29 votes.
A true return.
CHRISTIAN GUTSCHOW,
HANS STUHR,
GEORGE SCHULTZ,
Judges of Election.
THEODORE NAGEL,
PETER STUBEN,
Clerks of Election.
Poll-list.
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A true list of the voters.
THEODORE NAGEL. Grand Island City, Hall County, N. T., November 17, A. D. 1860.
This is to certify that the above is a true and correct copy of the original poll-book and poll-list kept at the election held in the Grand Island precinct of Hall county, on the 9th day of October, 1860, as they are on file in my office.
THEODORE NAGEL, County Recorder, acting as County Clerk
Source Cited:
Miscellaneous Documents of the House of Representatives: First Session of the Thirty-Seventh Congress. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1861): 116, 118-120. Google Books, http://books.google.com/ (accessed: April 27, 2011).
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