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 for electors of President and Vice President, and for members of Congress, which were received and deposited in the ballot box by the inspectors.

For this act of your petitioner, an indictment was formed against her by the grand jury, at the sitting of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York at Albany, charging your petitioner, under the nineteenth section of the Act of Congress of May 31, 1870, entitled, "An act to enforce the rights of citizens of the United States to vote in the several states of this union, and for other purposes." with having knowingly voted without having a lawful right to vote."

To that indictment your