Final report of the Committee on Senatorial Votes.

[Maine] : [Stevens & Sayward, Printers to the State], [1858]

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Document (Maine. Legislature. Senate) ; 37th Legislature, 1858, no. 13.

Final report of the Committee on Senatorial Votes, 1858. The report was to determine who should be seated from a four way race in the eighth district. Numerically, the answer was obvious, but the citizenship status of the winner had been challenged. Because of his residence, his case was all tied up in the US/Canada boundary dispute. The Committee looked at the citizenship status of anyone who had become part of the country via a land cession or purchase, which took many pages. Ultimately, the men decided that if you had lived in the disputed area of northern Maine, when the boundary was finally drawn and you ended up in the United States, then you were a citizen, period, so Mr. McCluskey should be seated. A minority report disagreed with the citizenship conclusion, so, no, Mr. McCluskey was not entitled to his seat--the next vote getter should be seated. Majority rules.

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