"Cases of contested elections in Congress from 1789 to 1834 inclusive, by "Clark and Hall," cited as "Cl. & H.," or as "Clark and Hall." "Cases of contested elections in Congress from 1834 to 1865 inclusive, compiled by D. W. Bartlett, clerk of the committee of elections," cited as "1 Bartlett." "Cases of contested elections in the House of Representatives from 1865 to 1871 inclusive, compiled by D. W. Bartlett, clerk" &c., cited as "2 Bartlett." THE AMERICAN LAW OF ELECTIONS. CHAPTER I. OF THE QUALIFICATIONS OF VOTERS. § 1. Subject to the limitation contained in the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the power to fix the qualifications of voters is vested in the States. Each State fixes for itself these qualifications, and the United States adopts the State law upon the subject, as the rule in Federal Elections, as will be seen by reference to Sec. II of Art. I of the Constitution, which provides as follows: "The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several States, and the electors in each State shall have the qualifications required for electors of the most numerous branch of the State Legislature." The qualifications of voters for presidential electors, are also to be fixed by the States, as will be seen by reference to Sec. I of Art. II of the Constitution, which provides that "each State shall appoint, in such manner as the legislature thereof may |