Who Can Answer This?

Kd. Courier :- A friend of the wrlter, who is a legal voter in one of the wards of this city, but wlio Is a student of the University also- such a combination I belleve is leg.-il-y possible is it not ?- registered, and offered hls vote at the recent municipal clectlon. His vote was challenged, and in the oath that the inspector of election proposed to administer to him was incorporated In writing a gentence to the efi'ect that he must swear that he was not a student of the University. The young man could not swear that he was not a student when he was one, although lie was a legal voter and liad a rlght to exercise this hijïhest privilege as an American citizen. What T should Jlke to know is vrhere ihat board oí election receive 1 lts authorl y Eor ehanging I he oat'j to be aiim'ni tered from the toi ui that is la il flown in ihe statute? Did not the board assume an unwarranted authorlty when it addéü that eentence, and are the rnembera thereof not punlshable under the law for disfranchislng a legal voter by compelltng liirn to swear to that if he exerclsed hls rlght o! franchise ? If I am not mistaken it is a serlous offense under the law to illegally disfranchise a citizen. and I should like to have you, Mr. Editor, teil the people, if yon can, where that board obtained its authority for the afctiou that it took. Very truly yours, JCSTICEl (The editor of this paper is not a lawyer, and makes no pretense at understanding the many Intiijacies and teehnicalities wlth which modern law is often hedged about. It is our opinión, however, that if the l;);n-il dld as represented, it overstepped its authorlty. - Kd.)