 | 1888 - 330 páginas
...county tax within two years preceding election assessed upon him in any town or district, and who shall be able to read the Constitution in the English language and write his name. Wills. — All persons 21 years of age may dispose of all his property by will. The will must be signed... | |
 | Simon Sterne - 1888 - 402 páginas
...swept away. In the Constitution of the State of Massachusetts there is a provision that the voter shall be able to read the Constitution in the English language, and write his name, and by an amendment to its Constitution in 1863, two years' residence in addition to the time necessary... | |
 | New Hampshire. Constitutional Convention - 1889 - 320 páginas
...No person shall have the right to vote or be eligible to office under the Constitution of this State who shall not be able to read the Constitution in the English language, and write his name ; provided, however, that the provisions of this amendment shall not apply to any person prevented... | |
 | 1890 - 986 páginas
...following amendment was added to the above provision of the Constitution of Massachusetts :— " ART. XX. No person shall have the right to vote, or be eligible...Constitution in the English language, and write his name : provided, however, that the provisions of this Amendment shall not apply to any person prevented... | |
 | John Cleaves Henderson - 1890 - 408 páginas
...babies — are not allowed to vote. A paragraph of the Constitution of Massachusetts reads thus: " No person shall have the right to vote or be eligible...Constitution in the English language, and write his name; provided however, that the provisions of this amendment shall not apply to any person prevented by... | |
 | Austin De Wolf - 1890 - 216 páginas
...or as officers. Gush. ParL Law, 13, 24 ; Cool. Con. Lim. "29, *599; Robinson's Case, 131 Mass. 376. No person shall have the right to vote, or be eligible...Constitution in the English language, and write his name ; provided, however, that the provisions of this amendment shall not apply to any person prevented... | |
 | Maine - 1891 - 966 páginas
...person shall have the right to vote or be eligible to office under the constitution of this state, who shall not be" able to read the constitution in the English language, and write his name; provided, however, that the provisions of this amendment shall not apply to any person prevented by... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Butler - 1892 - 1252 páginas
...the Irishmen. It provided that " No person shall have the right to vote, or be eligible to office, who shall not be able to read the Constitution in the English language, and write his name." This article was adopted on the recommendation of the same legislature, May 1, 1859. This provision... | |
 | Biddeford (Me.). School Board - 1892 - 120 páginas
...person shall have the right to vote or be eligible to office, under the Constitution of this State, who shall not be able to read the Constitution in the English language and write his name; provided, however, that the provisions of this amendment shall not apply to any person prevented by... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1892 - 162 páginas
...pauper or person under guardianship, who, not being prevented by physical disability from so doing, is able to read the constitution in the English language and write his name, and who is twenty-one years of age or upward, and who shall have resided within the state one year... | |
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No person shall have the right to vote, or be eligible to office under the constitution of this commonwealth, who shall not be able to read the constitution in the English language, and write his name: provided, however, that the provisions of this amendment... 
