e defendants to pay a fine of $25 each, and
the costs of the prosecution.[175]

The following petition was presented in the Senate by Mr. Sargent, the
present (1882) United States Minister to Germany, and in the House by
Mr. Loughridge, of Iowa:

Forty-third Congress, First Session, Senate, Mis. Doc. No. 39. A
petition of Susan B. Anthony praying for the remission of a fine
imposed upon her by the United States Court for the Northern
District of New York, for illegal voting. January 22, 1874.
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be
printed.

_To the Congress of the United States:_

The petition of Susan B. Anthony, of the city of Rochester, in
the county of Monroe, and State of New York, respectfully
represents: That, prior to the late presidential election, your
petitioner applied to the Board of Registry in the Eighth Ward of
the city of Rochester, in which city she had resided for more
than twenty-five years, to have her name placed upon the register
of voters; and the Board of Registry, after consideration of the
subject, decided that your petitioner was entitled to have her
name placed upon the register, and placed it there accordingly.
On the day of election your petitioner, in common with hundreds
of other American citizens, her neighbors, whose names had also
been registered as voters, offered to the inspectors of election
her ballots for electors of President and Vice-President, and for
members of Congress, which were received and deposited in the
ballot-box by the inspectors. For this act of your petitioner an
indictment was found against her by the grand jury, at the
sitting of the District Court of the United States for the
Northern District of New York, at Albany, charging your
petitioner, under the nineteenth section of the act of Congress
of May 31, 1870, entitled "An act to enforce the rights of
citizens of the United States to vote in the several States of
this Union, and for other purposes," with having "knowingly voted
without having a lawful right to vote."

To that indictment your petitioner pleaded not guilty, and the
trial of the issue thus joined took place at the Circuit Court in
Canandaigua, in the county of Ontario, before the Honorable Ward
Hunt, one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the Unite