 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1853 - 158 pages
...IV. [Every male person, being twenty-one years of age, and resident in any particular town in this Commonwealth, for the space of one year next preceding,...pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds, shall have a right to vote in the choice of a representative or representatives for the said town.... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention, Nathan Hale - Constitutional conventions - 1853 - 702 pages
...aforesaid. IV. Every male person, being twenty-one years of age, and resident in any particular town in this Commonwealth for the space of one year next preceding,...pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds, shall have a right to vote in the choice of a representative or representatives for the said town.... | |
 | Massachusetts - Constitutional law - 1853 - 108 pages
...the See amend- space of one year next preceding, having a freehold estate, ments, Art. m. w^}1jn ^e same town, of the annual income of three pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds, shall have a right to vote in the choice of a representative or representatives for the said town.... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1854 - 532 pages
...aforesaid. 4. Every male person (being twenty-one years of age, and resident of any particular town in this commonwealth, for the space of one year next preceding)...pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds, shall have a right to vote in the choice of a representative, or representatives for the said town.... | |
 | William Hyslop Sumner - 1854 - 90 pages
...unless, besides a year's residence in the town in which he claimed to vote, " he had a freehold estate in the same town, of the annual income of three pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds." If there were no pecuniary qualification, a pauper's vote would balance that of him who had everything... | |
 | Constitutions, State - 1855 - 576 pages
...twenty-one years of age, and resident of any particular town in this commonwealth, for the space of one yein next preceding) having a freehold estate within the...pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds, shall have a right to vole in the choice of a representative, or representatives, for the said town.... | |
 | William Cooper Nell - African American soldiers - 1855 - 416 pages
...the words, ' every male person ' ; and to expunge the following clause in said article, namely, — ' having a freehold estate within the same town of the...pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds,' — for the following reason: such qualification appears to your Committee to be inconsistent with... | |
 | United States - Electronic books - 1856 - 350 pages
...Art. 4. Every male person (being twenty-one years of age, and resident of any particular town in this commonwealth, for the space of one year next preceding)...pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds, shall have a right to vote in the choice of a representative, or representatives, for the said town.... | |
 | Massachusetts - Law - 1856 - 430 pages
...twenty-one years of age, and resident in any particular town in this Commonwealth, sŤ amendment*, for the space of one year next preceding, having a...pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds, shall have a right to vote in the choice of a representative or representatives for the said town.... | |
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Commonwealth, for the space of one year next preceding, having a freehold estate within the same town, of the annual income of three pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds, shall have a right to vote in the choice of a representative or representatives... 
