ILLINOIS. Aliens voting under the Constitution of 1848. Women given the right to vote for school officers. *ARTICLE VII. SECTION I. Every person having resided in this State one year, in the county ninety days, and in the election district thirty days next preceding any ? election therein, who was an elector in this State on the 1st day of April, in the year of our Lord, 1848 [see Constitutional provision of 1848], or obtained a certificate of naturalization, before any court of record in this State, prior to the first of January, in the ycar of our Lord, 1870, or who shall be a male ¿ citizen of the United States above the age of twenty-one years, shall be entitled to vote at such election. ? June 19, 1891, an act of the Legislature was approved conferring the right to vote for school officers on women and it went into force July 1, 1891. The act is, however, assumed to be unconstitutional, conflicting with these provisions in this article. SEC. 4. No elector shall be deemed to have lost his residence in this State by reason of his absence on the business of the United States, or this State, or in the military or naval service of the United States. SEC. 5. No soldier, seaman or marine in the army of the United States shall be deemed a resident of the State in consequence of being stationed therein. SEC. 6. No person shall be elected or appointed to any office in the State, civil or military, who is not a cltizen of the United States, and who shall not have resided in this State one year next preceding the election or appoint ment. SEC. 7. The general assembly shall pass laws excluding from the right of suffrage persons convicted of Infamous crimes (1). *Const. of 1870. (1) No person who has been legally convicted of any crime, the punishment of which is imprisonment in the penitentiary, shall be permitted to vote at any election, unless he shall be restored to the right to vote by pardon. Starr & Curtis' Annotated Stats. of Ill., Ch. 36, ¶ 72, p. 1012. Or by the expiration of his disfranchisement under section 83 of this act. Cothtan's Anno. Ed. Rev. Stats., Ill. p, 627. And the effect of a sentence of disfranchisement * * shall be to deprive such persons entenced of the right to vote at any general or special election, or town meeting within this State, for the period of time fixed by the court, where such person shall be convicted under this Section. Id. See. 83, p. 630. Following is the Constitutional provision of 1848: ARTICLE VI. SEC. I. In all elections every white male citizen above the age of twenty-one years, having resided in the State one year next preceding any election, shall be entitled to vote at such election; and every white male inhabitant of the age aforesaid who may be a resident of the State at the time of the pdoption of this Constitution, shall have the right of voting as aforesaid; but no such citizen or inhabitant shall be entitled to vote except in the district or county in which he shall actually reside at the time of such election, IOWA. *ARTICLE II. SECTION 1. Every male citizen of the United States of the age of twentyone years, who shall have been a resident of the State six months next preceding the election, and the county in which he claims his vote sixty days, shall be entitled to vote at all elections which are now or hereafter may be authorized by law. SEC. 4. No person in the military, naval or marine service of the United States shall be considered a resident of this State by being stationed in any garrison, barrack, or military or naval station within this State. SEC. 5. No idiot or insane person, or persons convicted of any infamous crime, shall be entitled to the privilege of an elector. MAINE. †ARTICLE II. SECTION 1. Every male citizen of the United States of the age of twentyone years and upwards, excepting paupers, persons under guardianship, and Indians not taxed, having his residence established in this State for the term of three months next preceding any election, shall be an elector for governor, senators and representatives, in the town or plantation where his residence is so established, and the elections shall be by written ballot. But persons in the military, naval or marine service of the United States, or this St te, 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; nor *Const. of Iowa, 1857. +Const. of Maine, 1820, and amendments of 1865. shall the residence of a student at any seminary of learning entitle him to the right of suffrage in the town or plantation where such seminary is established. No person, however, shall be deemed to have lost his residence by reason of his absence from the State in the military service of the United States, or of this State. SEC. 4. The election of governor, senators and representatives, shall be on the second Monday of September, annually, forever. But citizens of the State aosent therefrom in the military service of the United States, or of this State, and not in the regular army of the United States, being otherwise qualified electors, shall be allowed to vote on Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, for governor and senators, and their votes shall be counted and allowed in the same manner and with the same effect as if given on the second Monday of September in that year. And they shall be allowed to vote for governor, senators and representatives on the second Monday of September annually thereafter forever in the manner herein provided. On the day of election a poll shall be opened at every place without this State where a regiment, battalion, battery, company, or detachment of not less than twenty soldiers from the State of Maine may be found or stationed, and every citizen of said State of the age of twenty-one years, in such military service, shall be entitled to vote as aforesaid; and he shall be considered as voting in the city, town, plantation and connty in this State where he resided when he entered the service. * * ARTICLE IX. SEC. 2. But citizens of this State absent therefrom in the military service of the United States or of this State, and not in the regular army of the United States, being otherwise qualified electors, shall be allowed to vote for judges and registers of probate, sheriffs, and all other county officers, on the Tuesday next after the first Monday of November, in the year 1864, and their votes shall be counted and allowed in the same manner and with the same effect as if given on the second Monday of September in that year. And they shall be allowed to vote for all such officers on the second Monday in September annually thereafter forever. * * SECTION 1. * MARYLAND. *ARTICLE I. # * and every white (1) male citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-one years or upward, who has been a resident of *Const. of Maryland, 1867. (1) Annulled by XVth Amendt. Fed. Const. the State for one year, and of the legislative district of Baltimore city, or of the county in which he may offer to vote, for six months next preceding the election, shall be entitled to vote in the ward or election district in which he resides, at all elections hereafter to be held in this State; and, in case any county or city shall be so divided as to form portions of different electoral districts for the election of Representatives in Congress, Senators, delegates, or other officers, then, to entitle a person to vote for such officer, he must have been a resident of that part of the county or city which shall form a part of the electoral district in which he offers to vote for six months next preceding the election; but a person who shall have acquired a residence in such county or city, entitling him to vote at any such election, shall be entitled to vote in the election district from which he removed until he shall have acquired a residence in the part of the county or city to which he has removed. SEC. 2. No person above the age of twenty-one years, convicted of larceny or other infamous crime, unless pardoned by the Governor, shall ever thereafter be entitled to vote at any election in this State; and no person under guardianship as a lunatic, or as a person non compos mentis, shall be entitled to vote. SEC. 3. If any person shall give or offer to give, directly or indirectly, any bribe, present, or reward, or any promise, or any security for the payment or the delivery of money, or any other thing, to induce any voter to refrain from casting his vote, or 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 Representatives 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 person 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, 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. MISSISSIPPI. *ARTICLE I SECTION 18. No property or educational qualification shall ever be required for any person to become an elector. SEC. 27. * ** Any person who shall hereafter fight a duel, or assist in the same as second, or send, accept or knowingly carry a challenge there. *Const. of Mississippi, 1868. A new Constitution was adopted in 1891, See Appendix. for, or go out of the State to fight a duel, shall be disqualified from holding any office under this Constitution, and shall forever be disfranchised in this State. ARTICLE IV. SECTION 17. No person shall be eligible to any office of profit or trust, nor shall he be permitted to exercise the right of suffrage within this State, who shall have been convicted of bribery, perjury, or other infamous crime. SEC. 18. Any person who shall have been convicted of giving or offering, directly or indirectly, any bribe to procure his election or appointment, and any person who shall give or offer any bribe to procure the election or appointment of any person to office, shall, on conviction thereof, be disqualified from being an elector or holding any office of profit or trust under the laws of the State. ARTICLE VII. SECTION 2. All male inhabitants of this State, except idiots, and insane persons, and Indians not taxed, citizens of the United States or naturalized, twenty-one years old and upwards, who have resided in this State six months and in the county one month next preceding the day of election, at which said inhabitant offers to vote, and who are duly registered according to the requirements of section three of this article, and who are not disqualified by reason of any crime, are declared to be qualified electors. SEC. 3. The Legislature shall provide, by law, for the registration of all persons entitled to vote at any election, and all persons entitled to register shall take and subscribe to the following oath or affirmation : "I, , do solemnly swear (or affirm), in the presence of Almighty God, that I am twenty-one years old; that I have resided in this State six months, and in county one month; that I will faithfully support and obey the Constitution and laws of the United States and of the State of Mississippi, and will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. So help me God." SEC. 4. No person shall be eligible to any office of profit or trust, or to any office in the militia of this State, who is not a qualified elector. SEC. 5 In time of war, insurrection, or rebellion, the right to vote at such place and in such manner as shall be prescribed by law, shall be enjoyed by all persons otherwise entitled thereto, who may be in the actual military or naval service of the United States, or this State, provided said votes be made to apply in the county or precinct wherein they reside. SEC. 2. ARTICLE XII. The Legislature shall pass laws to exclude from office and from suffrage those who shall hereafter be convicted of bribery, perjury, forgery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors; and every person shall be disquali. fied from holding any office, or place of honor, profit, or trust under the |