Excerpt from Index to the Miscellaneous Documents of the House of Representatives for the Second Session of the Forty-Fifth Congress, 1877-'78, Vol. 5 of 7 The only question before the committee is whether the document, a copy of which is annexed, marked A, entitles Mr. Clarke prima facie to a seat in the House, subject to the right of any other person hereafter, who may claim to be duly entitled thereto, to contest his right upon the merits. This is a Simple question of law. Statutes United States, 1867, ch. 1, requires the Clerk of the preceding House of Representatives to make, before the meeting of Congress, a roll of those persons whose credentials Show that they were regularly elected in accordance with the laws of their States, respectively, or the laws of the United States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.