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Excerpt from Can a Negro Hold Office in Georgia? Decided in Supreme Court of Georgia, June Term, 1869: Arguments of Counsel, With the Opinions of the Judges, and the Decision of Court in the Case of Richard W. White, Clerk of Superior Court of Chatham Co;, Plaintiff in Error, Versus the State of Georgia, Ex Relatione Wm; J. Clements, Defendant in Error
And your Petitioner further shows, that by Section 121 of the Code 01 Georgia, it is enacted that if at any popa lar election to fill any office the person elected is ineligible, the person having the next highest number of votes, who eligible, whenever a plurality elects, shall be declared elected, and be duly qualified and commissioned to such Office that your Petitioner was at the time Of said election eligible to said Office, and that a plurality elects in such election.
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