Impeachment trial subpoenas and subpoena tickets for Canal Commissioner
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Subpoenas and subpoena tickets were issued by the clerk of the Court for Trial of Impeachment (i.e. State Senate), August 14-16, 1853.
John C. Mather was impeached and convicted for unauthorized and excessive expenditures as Canal Commissioner. The Constitution of 1846 empowered the Assembly to impeach state officers and the Senate, the President of the Senate, and the Judges of the Court of Appeals to form a Court for the Trial of Impeachments to try them.
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