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--And the qualifications of electors of the Governor shall be the same as those for Senators; and if no person shall have a majority of votes, the Senate and House of Representatives shall, by joint ballot, elect one of the two persons having the highest number of votes, who shall be declared Governor. N. H., 405. ---And every white male of foreign birth, of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, who shall have resided in the United States one year, and shall have resided in this State during the six months immediately preceding such election, and shall have declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States one year preceding such election, conformably to the laws of the United States on the subject of naturalization, shall be entitled to vote at all elections authorized by law. Or., 448.

-A plurality of the votes given at an election shall constitute a choice, where not otherwise directed in this Constitution. Cal., 105; Neb., 373; Nev., 392. -All elections ought to be free; and all the inhabitants of this Commonwealth, having such qualifications as they shall establish by their frame of government, have an equal right to elect officers, and to be elected for public employments. Mass., 281; N. H., 399.

-All elections shall be free and equal. Ark., 84;
Del., 116; Il., 165; Ind., 171; Ky., 223; Miss., 347,
N. H., 399; Or., 448; Pa., 467; Tenn., 490; Va., 532.
-All elections should be free and open. Mo., 347.
-No property qualification for eligibility to office, or
for the right of suffrage shall ever be required in this
State.
Fl., 129.

-That elections of members to serve as Representatives in General Assembly ought to be free. N. C.,

422.

-Every person of good character, who comes to settle in this State, having first taken an oath or affirmation of allegiance to the same, may purchase, or by other means acquire, hold, and transfer land, or other real estate, and after one year's residence shall be deemed a free denizen thereof, and entitled to all rights of a natural born subject of this State; except that he shall not be capable of being elected Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Treasurer, Councillor, or Representative in Assembly, until after two years' residence. Vt., 527.

--Every citizen shall be entitled to equal representation in the government, and in all apportionments of representation, equality of numbers of those entitled thereto shall, as far as practicable, be preserved. Va., 546.

W.

-And who is really and truly possessed in his own right of real estate in such town or city of the value of one hundred and thirty-four dollars, over and above all incumbrances, or which shall rent for seven dollars per annum, over and above any rent reserved, or the interest of any incumbrances thereon, being an estate in fee simple, fee tail, for the life of any person, or an estate in reversion of remainder, which qualifies no other person to vote, the conveyance of which estate, if by deed, shall have been recorded at least ninety days, shall hereafter have a right to vote at the election of all civil officers, and on all questions in all legal town or ward meetings, so long as he continues so qualified. And if any person hereinbefore described shall own any such estate within this State, out of the town or city in which he resides, he shall have a right to vote in the election of all general officers and members of the General Assembly, in the town or city in which he shall have had his residence and home for the term of six months next preceding the election, upon producing a certificate from the clerk of the town or city in which his estate lies, bearing date within ten days of the time of his voting, setting forth that such person has a sufficient estate therein to qualify him as a voter, and that the deed, if any, has been recorded ninety days. R. I., 474.

-Every male citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-one years, who has had his residence and home in this State two years, and in the town or city in which he may offer to vote six months next pre

ceding the time of voting, whose name is registered pursuant to the act calling the Convention to frame this Constitution, or shall be registered in the office of the clerk of such town or city, at least seven days before the time he shall offer to vote, and before the last day of December in the present year; and who has paid or shall pay a tax or taxes, assessed upon his estate within this State, and within a year of the time of voting, to the amount of one dollar, or who shall voluntarily pay, at least seven days before the time he shall offer to vote, and before the said last day of December, to the Clerk or Treasurer of the town or city where he resides, the sum of one dollar, or such sums as, with his other taxes, shall amount to one dollar, for the support of public schools therein, and shall make proof of the same, by the certificate of the Clerk, Treasurer, or Collector of any town or city where such payment is made; or who, being so registered, has been enrolled in any military company in this State, and done military service or duty therein, within the present year, pursuant to law, and shall (until other proof is required by law), prove by the certificate of the officer legally commanding the regiment, or chartered, or legally authorized, or volunteer company, in which he may have served or done duty, that he has been equipped and done duty according to law, or by the certificate of the commissioners upon military claims, that he has performed military service, shall have a right to vote in the election of all civil officers, and on all questions in legally organized town or ward meetings, until the end of the first year after the adoption of this Constitution, or until the end of the year eighteen hundred and fortythree. R. I., 474.

-But no compulsory process shall issue for the collection of any registry tax; Provided, That the registry tax of every person who has performed military duty according to the provisions of the preceding section, shall be remitted for the year he shall perform such duty; and the registry tax assessed upon any mariner, for any year while he is at sea, shall, upon his application, be remitted; and no person shall be allowed to vote whose registry tax for either of the two years next preceding the time of voting is not paid or remitted, as herein provided. R. I., 475. --And have paid all taxes which may have been required of them, and which they have had an opportunity of paying agreeable to law, for the year preceding the election. Ga., 149.

--No property qualification shall be necessary to the holding of any office in this State, except the office of Senator in the General Assembly, and the office of Assessor, Inquisitor on lands, and levy Court Commissioner, and except such offices as the General Assembly shall by law designate. Del., 125. -No property qualification for eligibility to office, or for the right of suffrage, shall ever be required by law in this State. Miss., 335.

-No possession of a freehold, or of any other estate, shall be required as a qualification for holding a seat in either branch of the General Court, or in the Executive Council. Mass., 297.

[Freehold qualifications.] N. Y., (1777), 27, 28; (1821), 37; (abolished in 1826, p. 45). Formerly in Ct., $7, annually 111; N. H., 402; N. C., 50 acres,

424.

[Property qualification without regard to color.] N. Y. (1777), 27.

-[Residence in State at time of adoption of Constitution, gives right to vote.] Mich., 307. -And within two years paid a State or county tax, which shall have been assessed at least ten days before the election, shall enjoy the rights of an elector. But a citizen of the United States, who had previously been a qualified voter of this State, and removed therefrom and returned, and who shall have resided in the election district, and paid taxes as aforesaid, shall be entitled to vote, after residing in the State six months; Provided, That white freemen, citizens of the United States, between the ages of twentyone and twenty-two years, and having resided in the State one year, and in the election district ten days

as aforesaid, shall be entitled to vote, although they shall not have paid taxes. Pa., 446. -White male citizens of Mexico at time of treaty of 1848, who have elected to become citizens of the United States, declared electors. Cal., 97. -That all elections ought to be free, and without corruption, and that all freemen, having a sufficient evident common interest with and attachment to the community, have a right to elect and be elected to office, agreeably to the regulations made in this Constitution. Vt. 521.

-Must be taxpayer two years. Del., 120; within two years, Pa., 454; not specific, Ga., 149; Mass., 294; N. C., 424.

-No property qualification for eligibility to office, or for the right of suffrage, shall ever be required in this State. Fl., 129.

-That the right of the people to participate in the Legislature is the best security of liberty and the foundation of all free government; for this purpose elections ought to be free and frequent, and every free white male citizen having the qualifications prescribed by the Constitution, ought to have the right of suffrage. Md., 254.

-No person shall be eligible to any civil office, (except the office of school committee), unless he be a qualified elector for such office. R. I., 479.

-From and after that time, every such citizen, who has had the residence herein required, and whose name shall be registered in the town where he resides, on or before the last day of December in the year next preceding the time of his voting, and who shall show by legal proof that he has for and within the year next preceding the time he shall offer to vote, paid a tax or taxes assessed against him in any town or city in this State, to the amount of one dollar; or that he has been enrolled in a military company in this State, been equipped and done duty therein, according to law, and at least for one day during such year, shall have a right to vote in the election of all civil officers, and on all questions in all legally organized town or ward meettngs. R. I., 475.

-All persons who have been or shall hereafter, previous to the ratification of this Constitution, be admitted freemen, according to the existing laws of this State, shall be electors. Ct., 111.

-Every white male citizen of the United States, and every white male person of foreign birth who may have declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States, according to law, not less than one year nor more than five years before he offers to vote, who is over the age of twenty-one years, who is not disqualified by or under any of the provisions of this Constitution, and who shall have complied with its requirements, and have resided in this State one year next preceding any election, or next preceding his registration as voter, and during the last sixty days of that period shall have resided in the county, city, or town where he offers to vote, or seeks registration as a voter, shall be entitled to vote at such election, for all officers, State, county, or municipal, made elective by the people; but he shall not vote elsewhere than in the Mo., 350.

-And the inhabitants of plantations unincorporated, qualified as this Constitution provides, who are or shall be empowered and required to assess taxes upon themselves toward the support of government, shall have the same privilege of voting for Councillors and Senators, in the plantations where they reside, as town inhabitants have in their respective towns; and the plantation meetings for that purpose shall be held annually, [on the same first Monday in April], at such place in the plantations respectively, as the Assessors thereof shall direct: which Assessors shall have like authority for notifying the electors, collecting and returning the votes, as the Selectmen and Town Clerks have in their several towns, by this Constitution. And all other persons living in places unincorporated (qualified as aforesaid), who shall be assessed to the support of government by the Assessors of an adjacent town, shall have the privilege of giving in their votes for Councillors and Senators in the town

where they shall be assessed, and be notified of the place of meeting by the selectmen of the town where they shall be assessed, for that purpose, accordingly. Mass., 284.

-The qualifications of voters and the limitation of the elective franchise, may be determined by the General Assembly, which shall first assemble under the amended Constitution. Tenn., 504. -The General Assembly shall have power to regulate by law, not inconsistent with this Constitution, all matters which relate to the Judges of Election, time, place and manner of holding elections in this State, and of making returns thereof. Md., 256.

-The Selectmen and Town Clerk of the several towns shall decide on the qualifications of electors, at such times and in such manner as may be prescribed by law. Ct., 112.

--[Militia service formerly a qualification of electors for Assembly.] N. Y. (1821), 37; Ct., 112.

[Electors required to take an oath of allegiance.] N. Y. (1777), 27; Ct., 112, 115; Md., 256; Mo., 349, 350; Va., 534.

-Every man of the full age of twenty-one years, having resided in the State for the space of one whole year next before the election of Representative, and is of a quiet and peaceful behavior, and will take the following oath or affirmation, shall be entitled to all the privileges of a freeman of this State: "You solemnly swear (or affirm) that whenever you give your vote or suffrage, touching any matter that concerns the State of Vermont, you will do it so as in your conscience you shall judge will most conduce to the best good of the same, as established by the Con-. stitution, without fear or favor of any man. Vt., 525.

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PROVISIONS CONCERNING COLORED PERSONS AND INDIANS.

-No free negro, free mulatto, or free person of mixed blood, descended from negro ancestors to the fourth generation inclusive (though one ancestor of each generation may have been a white person), shall vote for members of the Senate or House of Commons. N. C., 428.

-Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the Legislature, by a two-thirds concurrent vote, from admitting to the right of suffrage Indians or the descendants of Indians, in such special cases as such a proportion of the legislative body may deem just and proper. Cal., 97. -[Indians not taxed, excluded from voting.] Mo., 240; Tenn., 507.

[Narraganset Indians excluded from voting.] R. I.,

475.

-Civilized persons of Indian descent and not belonging to any tribe, may vote. Mich., 307; Wis., 562.

Persons of mixed white and Indian blood who have adopted the customs and habits of civilization, may vote. Min., 325.

-Persons of Indian blood residing in this State, who have adopted the language, customs and habits of civilization, after an examination before any District Court of the State, in such manner as may be provided by law, and shall have been pronounced by said court capable of enjoying the rights of citizenship within the State. Min., 325.

-Persons of Indian blood who have once been declared by law of Congress to be citizens of the United States, any subsequent law of Congress to the contrary notwithstanding. Wis., 562.

--Colored persons expressly excluded from voting. Ind., 171; Or., 449; Tex., 507. --Excluded from elections by the word "white." Ala., 82; Ark., 85; Cal., 97; Ct., 111, 115; Del., 120; F., 135; Ga., 149; Ill., 162; Ind., 171; Iowa, 184; Kan., 201; Ky., 215; La., 227; N. J., 413; Me., 240; Md., 256; Mich., 307; Min., 325; Mo, 350; Neb., 371; Nev., 380; Ohio, 438; Or., 448; Pa., 464; S. C., 486; Tenn., 495; Va., 533; W. Va., 347. -The word "white," not used. Mass., 281; N. H., 403; R. I., 474; Vt., 525.

-Freemen are voters, and the word "white" not used. N. C., 424.

-Legislature may provide for election of such other persons, citizens of United States, as by military service, by taxation to support the Government, or by intellectual fitness, may be deemed entitled thereto. La., 227.

--[Freemen of color excused from military duty, and from poll tax.] Tenn., 495.

-That no person shall be disqualified from voting in any election on account of color, who is now, by the laws of this State, a competent witness in a court of justice against a white man. All free men of color shall be exempt from military duty in time of peace, and also from paying a free poll tax. Tenn., 495. -[The word "white," stricken out.] Wis. 561. [Proposition pending to strike out "white."] Kan.

LITERARY QUALIFICATIONS OF VOTERS. -Every person shall be able to read any article of the Constitution, or any section of the statutes of this State, before being admitted as an elector. Ct., 115. --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 shall not apply to any person prevented by a physical disability from complying with its requisitions, nor to any person who now has the right to vote, nor to any person who shall be sixty years of age or upwards at the time this amendment shall take effect. Mass., 222.

-After the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, every person who was not a qualified voter prior to that time shall, in addition to the other qualifications required, be able to read and write in order to become a qualified voter; unless his inability to read or write shall be the result of a physical disability. Mo., 351.

SOLDIERS' VOTE.

-The right of suffrage shall be enjoyed by all persons otherwise entitled to the same, who may be in the military or naval service of the United States; Provided, The votes so cast shall be made to apply to the county and township of which said voters were bona fide residents at the time of their enlistment; Provided, further, That the payment of a poll tax, or a registration of such voters shall not be required as a condition to the right of voting. Provision shall be made by law regulating the manner of voting, holding elections, and making returns of such elections, wherein other provisions are not contained in this Constitution. Nev., 380.

-Any qualified voter who may be absent from the place of his residence, by reason of being in the volunteer army of the United States, or in the militia force of this State, in the service thereof, or of the United States, whether within or without the State, shall, without registration, be entitled to vote in any election occurring during such absence. The votes of all such persons, wherever they may be, may be taken on the day fixed by law for such election, or on any day or days within twenty days next prior thereto; and the General Assembly shall provide by law for the taking, return and counting of such votes. Every such person shall take the same oath that all other voters may be required to take in order to vote. Mo., 351.

Whenever any of the qualified electors of this Commonwealth, shall be in any actual military service, under a requisition from the President of the United States, or by the authority of this Commonwealth, such electors may exercise the right of suffrage in all elections by the citizens, under such

regulations as are, or shall be prescribed by law, as fully as if they were present at their usual place of election. Pa., 472.

[Entitled to vote in district where he resides.] Or in case of volunteer soldiers, within their several military departments or districts. Ark., 85.

[Regulation for soldiers' vote similar to that of New York.] Ct., 115; Mich., 308.

[Special and minute provision for soldiers' vote.] Md., 278.

-Officers and privates in army, and marines of the navy of United States, and seamen, excluded from voting. S. C., 486.

-The provisions of this ordinance in regard to the soldiers' vote shall apply to future elections under this Constitution, and be in full force until the Legislature shall provide by law for taking the votes of citizens of said Territory in the army of the United States. Nev., 398.

-The General Assembly shall also provide by law for taking the votes of soldiers in the army of the United States serving in the field. Md., 256.

Every elector of this State who shall be in the military service of the United States, either as a drafted person or volunteer, during the present rebellion, shall, when absent from this State, because of such service, have the same right to vote in any election of State officers, Representatives in Congress, and electors of President and Vice-President of the United States, as he would have if present at the time appointed for such election, in the town in which he resided at the time of his enlistment into such service. This provision shall in no case extend to persons in the regular army of the United States, and shall cease, and become inoperative and void, upon the termination of the present war. The General Assembly shall prescribe by law, in what manner and in what time the votes of electors absent from this State in the military service of the United States, shall be received, counted, returned and canvassed. Ct., 115.

--For the purpose of taking the vote of the electors of said Territory who may be in the army of the United States, the Adjutant-General of said Territory shall, on or before the fifth day of August next following, make out a list in alphabetical order, and deliver the same to the Governor, of the names of all the electors, residents of said Territory, who shall be in the army of the United States, stating the number of the regiment, battalion, squadron or battery to which he belongs, and also the county or township of his residence in the said Territory. Nev. 397. --No soldier, seaman, or marine, in the army or navy of the United States, or of their allies, shall be deemed to have acquired a residence in the State in consequence of being stationed within the same; nor shall any soldier, seaman, or marine have the right to vote.

Kan. 202.

No soldier, seaman or marine, in the army or navy of the United States, shall be deemed a resident of this State, in consequence of being stationed at any military or naval place within the State. Ala., 82; Ark., 85; Ill., 162; (nearly similar), Del., 120; Fl., 135; Ill., 162; Ind., 174; Iowa, 184; Me., 240; Mich., 308; Min., 326; N. J., 413; Ohio, 438; Or., 449; Va., 534; W. Va., 546; Wis., 462. --No officer, soldier, or marine, in the regular army or navy of the United States, shall be entitled to vote at any election in this State [Miss., 350], and no soldier, sailor, or marine in the army or navy of the United States shall be entitled to vote at any election created by this Constitution. Tex., 507.

-Any other person in the employ or pay of the United States, unless he be a qualified elector of the State previous to his appointment or enlistment as such officer, soldier, seaman or marine, in the regular army or navy of the United States, or of the revenue service, shall be considered a resident in the State in consequence of being stationed within the same. Fl., 135.

Electors of this State, who, in time of war, are absent from the State, in the actual military service

2. Laws may be passed excluding from the right of suffrage all persons

2 who have been or may be convicted of (1) bribery, (2) larceny, or of any 3 infamous crime; and for depriving every person who shall make, or become 4 directly or indirectly interested in any bet or wager, depending upon the 5 result of any election, from the right to vote at such election.(3)

of the United States, being otherwise qualified, shall have a right to vote in all elections in the State for electors of President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, and general officers of the State. The General Assembly shall have full power to provide by law for carrying this article into effect; and until such provision shall be made by law, every such absent elector on the day of such elections, may deliver a written or printed ballot, with the names of the persons voted for thereon, and his christian and surname, and his voting residence in the State, written at length on the back thereof, to the officer commanding the regiment or company to which he belongs; and all such ballots, certified by such commanding officer to have been given by the elector whose name is written thereon, and returned by such commanding officer to the Secretary of State within the time prescribed by law for counting the votes in such elections, shall be received and counted with the same effect as if given by such elector in open town, ward or district meeting; and the clerk of each town or city, until otherwise provided by law, shall, within five days after any such election, transmit to the Secretary of State a certified list of the names of all such electors on their respective voting lists. R. I., 481.

-But persons in the military, naval, or marine service of the United States, or this State, shall not be considered as having obtained such established residence by being stationed in any garrison, barrack, or military place, in any town or plantation. Me., 240. -No person in the military, naval or marine service of the United States shall be deemed a resident of this State by reason of being stationed therein; but citizens of this State, when in the military service of the United States, shall be permitted to vote under such regulations as may be prescribed by the General Assembly, wherever they may be stationed, the same as if they were within their respective cities, counties or districts. No person shall have the right to vote who is of unsound mind or a pauper, or who has been convicted of a bribery in an election, or of any infamous offense. Va., 534.

-If any person shall give, or offer to give, directly
or indirectly, or hath given or offered to give, since
the fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-
one, any bribe, present, or reward, or any proinise, or
any security for the payment or delivery of money
or any other thing, to induce any voter to refrain
from casting his vote, or forcibly to prevent him in
any way from voting, or to procure a vote for any
candidate or person, proposed or voted for as elector
of President and Vice-President of the United States,
or Representative in Congress, or for any office of
profit or trust created by the Constitution or laws
of this State, or by the ordinances or authority of the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, the person
giving or offering to give, and the persons receiving
the same, and any person who gives or causes to be
given an illegal vote, knowing it to be such, at any
election to be hereafter held in this State, or who
shall be guilty of or accessory to any fraud, force,
surprise, or bribery to procure himself or any other
person to be nominated to any office, national, State,
or municipal, shall, on conviction in a court of law,
in addition to the penalties now or hereafter to be
imposed by law, be forever disqualified to hold any
office of profit or trust, or to vote at any election
thereafter. Md., 257.

-But the foregoing provisions in relation to acts done
against the United States shall not apply to any per-
son not a citizen thereof, who shall have committed
such acts while in the service of some foreign country
at war with the United States, and who has, since
such acts, been naturalized, or may hereafter be nat-
uralized, under the laws of the United States, and
the oath of loyalty hereinafter prescribed, when taken
by any such person, shall be considered as taken in
such sense. Mo., 349.
-Whoever shall be convicted of having directly or
indirectly, given or offered any bribe, to procure his
election or appointment to any office, shall be dis-
qualified for any office of honor, trust or profit under
this State; and whoever shall give or offer any bribe
to procure the election or appointment of any other
person to any office, shall, on conviction thereof, be
disqualified for a voter, or any office of honor, trust
or profit under this State, for ten years after such
conviction. Mo., 350.

EXCLUSION FROM THE RIGHT OF SUF- The Legislature may pass laws to deprive persons

FRAGE.

[Idiots excluded]. Del., 120; Iowa, 184; Kan., 202; Md., 256; Min., 326; Nev., 380; N. J., 413; Ohio, 438; Or., 449; R. I., 475; Wis., 562.

[Lunatics excluded]. Del., 120; Iowa, 180; Kan., 202; Md., 256; Min., 326; Nev., 381; N. J., 413; Ohio, 438; Or., 449; R. I., 475; W. Va., 547; Wis., 562.

[Paupers excluded]. N. Y., (1821), 37; Cal., 97; La., 227; Me., 240; Mass., 294; N. H., 403; N. J., 413; R. 1., 475; S. C., 486; W. Va., 547.

[Persons under guardianship excluded]. Kan., 202; Me., 240; Mass., 294; Min., 326; Wis., 562. [Persons under interdiction excluded]. La., 227. Persons excused from paying taxes at their own request]. N. H., 403.

[Prisoners excluded]. Cal., 97. [Chinamen excluded]. Or., 449. -Persons residing on lands ceded by this State to the United States, shall not be entitled to exercise the privileges of electors. R. I., 475.

of the right of suffrage who shall be convicted of bribery at elections. N. J., 413; W. Va., 547. --Every person shall be disqualified from holding office, during the term for which he may have been elected, who shall have given or offered a bribe, threat, or reward, to procure his election. [Or., 449; Cal., 104; Kan., 202; Tex., 515.] Or procured any other person to offer a bribe. Ark., 86; R. I., 479. -Every person shall be disqualified from serving as Governor, Senator, Representative, or from holding any other office of honor or profit in this State, for the term for which he shall have been elected, who shall have been convicted of having given or offered any bribe to procure his election. Ala., 81; Fl., 136. -Or has ever, with a view to avoid enrollment in the militia of this State, or to escape the performance of duty therein. Mo., 348.

-Or, having ever voted at any election by the people in this State, or in any other of the United States, or in any of their Territories, or held office in this State, or in any other of the United States, or in any of their Territories, or under the United States, shall

thereafter have sought or received, under claim of alienage, the protection of any foreign government, through any consul or other officer thereof, in order to secure exemption from military duty in the militia of this State, or in the army of the United States. Mo., 349.

-And no person shall ever be admitted to hold a seat in the Legislature, or any office of trust or importance under the government of this Commonwealth, who shall, in the due course of law, have been convicted of bribery or corruption, in obtaining an election or appointment. Mass., 242. -No person shall ever be admitted to hold a seat in the Legislature, or any office of trust or importance under this government, who, in the due course of law, has been convicted of bribery or corruption in obtaining an election or appointment. N. H., 410. -All elections, whether by the people, or the Legislature, shall be free and voluntary; and any elector, who shall receive any gift or reward, for his vote, in meat, drink, moneys, or otherwise, shall forfeit his right to elect at that time, and suffer such other penalty as the law shall direct; and any person who shall directly or indirectly give, promise, or bestow, any such reward to be elected, shall thereby be rendered incapable to serve for the ensuing year, and be subject to such further punishment as a future Legislature may direct. Vt., 526.

-Any person who shall be convicted of the embezzlement or defalcation of the public funds of this State, or who may be convicted of having given or offered a bribe to secure his election or appointment to office, or received a bribe to aid in the procurement of office for any other person, shall be disqualified from holding any office of profit or trust in this State; and the Legislature shall, as soon as practicable, provide by law for the punishment of such defalcation, bribery, or embezzlement, as a felony. Nev., 582.

-No person who may hereafter be a collector or holder of public money shall be eligible to any office of trust or profit until he shall have accounted for and paid over according to law, all sums for which he may be liable. Ga., 143; Ind., 172; Mich., 303; Or., 449. -No person who may have collected, or been intrusted with public money, whether State, county, township, or municipal, shall be eligible to the Legislature, or to any office of honor, trust or profit, until he shall have duly accounted for and paid over such money according to law. Fl., 136; Iowa, 186; Mo., 353; N. C., 425; Ohio, 433; Tenn., 494; Tex., 509; W. Va., 550.

-Any elector who shall receive any gift or reward for his vote, in meat, drink, money, or otherwise, shall suffer such punishment as the laws shall direct. And any person who shall directly or indirectly give, promise, or bestow any such reward to be elected, shall thereby be rendered incapable, for six years, to serve in the office for which he was elected, and be subject to such further punishment as the Legislature shall direct. Tenn., 498.

--Or person convicted of a crime which now excludes bim from being a witness, unless pardoned or restored by law to the right of suffrage, shall enjoy the right of an elector. N. J., 413.

-No person who, since the first day of June, 1861, has given or shall give voluntary aid or assistance to the rebellion against the United States, shall be a citizen of this State, or be allowed to vote at any election held therein, unless he has volunteered into the military or naval services of the United States, and has been or shall be honorably discharged therefrom. W. Va., 548.

-Every person who shall give or accept a challenge
to fight a duel, or shall knowingly carry to another
person such challenge, or who shall agree to go out
of the State to fight a duel, shall be ineligible to any
office of trust or profit. Ark., 93; Ind., 171; Nev.,
392; Or., 449; Ct., 112; Kan., 202; Or., 449; Va.,
537; W. Va., 548; Wis., 570.
-Any inhabitant who may hereafter be engaged in
a duel, either as principal or accessory before the fact,
shall be disqualified from holding any office under the
Constitution and laws of this State, and shall not be
permitted to vote at any election. Mich., 308.

[Rigid exclusion of those who have participated in
the rebellion.] Md., 256; Mo., 348; Nev., 380.
[Amnesty of President required in case a person
has served in rebel army.] Nev., 380.

[Service in the United States army restores those who had lost their franchise by rebellion.] Mo., 350.

[Bribery specified as cause of disqualification.] Ala., 82; Ct., 112; Fl., 135; La., 233; Miss., 342; Mo., 352; Ohio, 438; R. I., 475; Wis., 562, and some others.

[Forgery, specified.] Ala., 82; Cal., 104; Ct., 112; Fl., 136.

[Fraudulent bankruptcy.] Ct., 112.

Felony.] Del., 121; Miss., 325; W. Va., 547, &c.
Larceny.] Wis., 561. [Theft.] Ct. 112.
[Perjury.] Ala., 82; Ct., 112; Fl., 135; Ill., 154;
La., 233; Mo., 352; Ohio, 438, &c.

[Treason.] La., 233; Min., 326; Nev., 380; W. Va., 547; Wis., 527.

Treason or felony committed in any State.] Nev., 380.

[Crimes punished by imprisonment in penitentiary.] Or., 447.

[Crimes punishable by hard labor.] La., 227.

["Other high crimes," and "infamous crimes."] Ala., 82; Cal., 97, 104; Ct, 112; Fl, 135; Ill., 162; Iowa, 184; Kan, 202; Min., 322; Mo., 352; Ohio, 438; R. I., 475; Tenn., 495; Wis., 562.

[Right lost as above may be restored.] Ga. 143; Kan., 202; Md., 256; Miss., 326; R. I., 475; Wis., 526, &c.

[Exclusion on account of crimes, applied to those over 21 years of age.] Md., 256. --The Legislature may impose the forfeiture of the right of suffrage as a punishment for crime. Del., 120; Ill., 162.

PRIVILEGES OF ELECTORS.

No elector shall be obliged to do militia duty on the day of election, except in time of war or public danger, or attend court as a suitor or witness, [Mich., 308], nor work on the public roads, [Va., 545; W. Va., 548; Cal., 97; Ill., 162; Iowa, 184; Me., 241; Miss., 336; Or., 449;] nor serve as a juror. Va., 534. -Every elector, in all cases, except treason, felony, or breach of the peace, shall be privileged from arrest during his attendance at election, and in going to and returning from the same. Ala., 82; Cal., 97; Del., 121; Ill., 162; Iowa, 184; Ind., 172; Kan,, 202; Ky., 210; La., 227; Me., 241; Mich., 308; Mo., 251; Ohio, 438; Or., 449; Pa., 464; Tenn., 495; Tex., 507; Va., 545.

Privilege from summons. Tenn., 495.

Privilege from service of civil process. Ct., 112; Nev., 381; Va., 534; W. Va., 548; Min., 326.

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