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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... "
Reports of Committees: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 48th Congress, 2nd Session - Page 36
by United States. Congress. Senate - 1880
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Report of the Attorney General

Massachusetts. Attorney General's Office - Attorneys general's opinions - 1915 - 396 pages
...till'after the establishment of the statutory rule under consideration. This amendment provides 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. A signature...
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Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives - Massachusetts - 1856 - 1442 pages
...ratification, in order that it may hecome part of the Constitution of this Commonwealth. Article of Amendment. 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...
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Acts and Resolves Passed by the General Court of Massachusetts, Pages 765-772

Massachusetts - Law - 1857 - 518 pages
...submitted to the people for their ratification and adoption. FIRST ARTICLE OF AMENDMENT. NO person who No person shall have the right to vote, or be eligible to wXot.hSid*oto office under the Constitution of this Commonwealth, who or how office. shall not be able...
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The General Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Volume 1

Massachusetts - Law - 1860 - 1158 pages
...the people of the several districts, for such term of office as the legislature shall prescribe. ART. during the time of its sitting, shall threaten harm to the body or e under the constitution of this commonwealth, who shall not be able to read the constitution in the...
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HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL GAZETTER OF MASSACHSETTS

JEREMIAH SPOFFORD, M.D. - 1860 - 390 pages
...by the people of the several districts, for such term of office as the legislature shall prescribe. 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...
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Acts and Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Massachusetts - Session laws - 1862 - 448 pages
...several districts, for such term of office as the legislature shall prescribe. K«°ding consti- ART. XX. 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...
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The War in America: Being an Historical and Political Account of the ...

Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - Slavery - 1862 - 434 pages
...citizen, of twenty-one years of age and upwards, is a voter. The organic law, however, declares, that "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 constitu- . tion in...
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The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Boston

Boston (Mass.). - Municipal law - 1864 - 972 pages
...By the twentieth, amendment of the Constitution of the State, no person shall have a right to vote " who shall not be able to read the Constitution in the English language and write his name." The amendment does not, however, apply to any person prevented by a physical disability...
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Annual Report of the Secretary of the Vermont Board of Education, Volumes 16-18

Education - 1865 - 594 pages
...Constitution of the State of Massachusetts, as recently revised, it is provided that: — ART. 20. — 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...
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Constitution of the State of New York: Adopted in 1846 : with a Comparative ...

New York (State) - Constitution - 1867 - 254 pages
...as an elector. Ct., 115. — No person shall have (-he right to vote, or be eligible to office under the Constitution of this Commonwealth, who shall not...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...
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