APPENDIX.

IDAHO.

Constitutional (1) provisions governing the electoral

franchise.

*ARTICLE I.

SECTION 20. No property qualifications shall ever be required for any person to vote or hold office except in school elections or electious creating indebtedness.

ARTICLE VI.

SECTION 2. Except as in this article otherwise provided, every male citizen of the United States, twenty-one years old, who has actually resided in this State or Territory for six months, and in the county where he offers to vote, thirty days next preceding the day of election, if registered as provided by law, is a qualified elector; and until otherwise provided by the Legislature, women having the qualifications prescribed in this article, may continue to hold such school offices and vote at such elections as provided by the laws of Idaho Territory (2).

SEC. 3. No person is permitted to vote, serve as a juror, or hold any civil office who is under guardianship, idiotic or insane; or who has, at any place, been convicted of treason, felony, embezzlement of the public funds, bartering or selling, or offering to barter or sell his vote, or purchasing or offering to purchase the vote of another, or other infamous crime, and who has not been restored to the rights of citizenship, or who, at the time of such election, is confined in prison on conviction of a criminal offense, or who is a bigamist or polygamist, or is living in what is known as patriarchal, plural or celestial marriage or in violation of any law of this State, or of the United States, for. bidding any such crime; or who, in any manner, teaches, advises, counsels, aids or encourages any person to enter into bigamy, polygamy, or such patriarchal, plural or celestial marriage, or to live in violation of any such law, or to commit any such crime; or who is a member of or contributes to the support, aid, or encouragement of any order, organization, association, corpora*Const. of Idaho, 1889.

(1) See page 89 for statutory provisions. (2) See Legislative act, page 89.

tion or society, which teaches, advises, counsels, encourages or aids any person to enter into bigamy, polygamy or such patriarchal, or plural marriage, or which teaches or advises that the laws of this State prescribing rules of civil conduct, are not the supreme law of the State; nor shall Chinese or persons of Mongolian descent, not born in the United States, nor Indians not taxed, who have not severed their tribal relations and adopted the habits of civilization, either vote, serve as jurors, or hold any civil office.

SEC. 4. The Legislature may prescribe qualifications, limitations, and conditions for the right of suffrage additional to those prescribed in this article, but shall never annul any of the provisions in this article contained.

SEC. 5. For the purpose of voting no person shall be deemed to have gained or lost a residence by reason of his presence or absence while employed in the service of this State, or of the United States, nor while engaged in the navigation of the waters of this State, or of the United States, nor while a student of any institution of learning, nor while kept at any almshouse or other asylum at the public expense.

MISSISSIPPI.

Constitutional provisions governing the elective fran

chise.

Tax limitations and educational and mental qualifications.

*ARTICLE XII.

SECTION 241. Every male inhabitant of this State, except idiots, insane persons and Indians not taxed, who is a citizen of the United States, twentyone years old and upwards, who has resided in this State two years, and one year in the election district, or in the incorporated city or town, in which he offers to vote, and who is duly registered as provided in this article, and who has never been convicted of bribery, burglary, theft, arson, obtaining money or goods under false pretenses, perjury, embezzlement or bigamy, and who has paid on or before the first day of February of the year in which he shall offer to vote, all taxes which may have been legally required of him, and which he has had an opportunity of paying according to law, for the preceding two years, and who shall produce to the officers holding the election satisfactory evidence that he has paid said taxes, is declared to be a qualified elector; but any minister of the gospel in charge of an organized church shall *Const. of Mississippi, 1890.

be entitled to vote after six months residence in the election district, if other

wise qualified. (1)

SEC. 242. The Legislature shall provide by law for the registration of all persons entitled to vote at any election, and all persons offering to register shall take the following oath or affirmation: "I,

do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am twenty-one years old (or I will be before the next election in this county), and that I will have resided in this State two years, and election district of county one year next preceding the ensuing election [or if it be stated in the oath that the person proposing to register is the minister of the gospel in charge of an organized church, then it will be sufficient to aver therein, two years residence in the State and six months in said election district] and am now in good faith a resident of the same, and that I am not disqualified by reason of having been convicted of any crime named in the Constitution of this State as a disqualification to be an elector; that I will truly answer all questions propounded to me concerning my antecedents so far as they relate to my right to vote, and also as to my residence before my citizenship in this district; that I will faithfully support the Constitution of the United States and of the State of Mississippi, and will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. So help me God." In registering voters in cities and towns, not wholly in one election district, the name of such city or town may be substituted in the oath for the election district. Any wilful and corrupt false statement in said affidavit, or in answer to any material questions propounded, as herein authorized, shall be perjury.

SEC. 244. On and after the first day of January, A. D., 1892, every elector shall, in addition to the foregoing qualifications, be able to read any section of the Constitution of this State; or shall be able to understand the same when read to him, or give a reasonable interpretation thereof. A new registration shall be made before the next ensuing election after January the first, A. D., 1892.

SEC. 245. Electors in municipal elections shall possess all the qualifications herein prescribed, and such additional qualifications as may be prescribed by law.

SEC. 247. The Legislature shall enact laws to secure fairness in party pri. mary elections, conventions or other methods of naming party candidates.

SEC. 249. No one shall be allowed to vote for members of the Legislature or other officers who has not been duly registered under the Constitution and laws of this State, by an officer of this State, legally authorized to register the voters thereof. And registration under the Constitution and laws of this

(1) This specification and the oath prescribed in the succeeding section would seem to exclude every other religious teacher or preacher in charge of an organized religious body from this special privilege.

State, by the proper officers of this State, is hereby declared to be an essential and necessary qualification to vote at any and all elections.

SEC. 250. All qualified electors and no others shall be eligible to office, except as otherwise provided in this Constitution.

SEC. 251. Electors shall not be registered within four months next before any election at which they may offer to vote; but appeals may be heard and determined and revision take place at any time prior to the election; and no person, who, in respect to age and residence, would become entitled to vote, within the said four months, shall be excluded from registration on account of his want of qualification at the time of registration. SEC. 253. The Legislature may, by a two-thirds vote of both Houses, of all members elected, restore the right of suffrage to any person disqualified by reason of crime; but the reasons therefore shall be spread upon the journals, and the vote shall be by yeas and nays.