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DUTIES AND POWERS OF RETURNING OFFICERS.

stands highest on his paper, and in whom he has thus expressed greater confidence than in any other with regard to whom he has been able to obtain the confidence of a sufficient number of his constituents. It is thus next to impossible for any elector,—except his sympathies be very narrow,—to fail of being represented by some one whom he has nominated for that purpose.