 | William Hyslop Sumner - Genealogy - 1854 - 90 pages
...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
...of electing persons to be senators and counsellors. And at such meetings every male inhabitant, of twenty-one years of age and upwards, having a freehold...pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds, shall have a right to give in his vote for the senators for the district of which he is an inhabitant.... | |
 | William Cooper Nell - African American soldiers - 1855 - 416 pages
...expunge the following clause in said article, namely, — ' having a freehold estate within the same town of the annual income of three pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds,' — for the following reason: such qualification appears to your Committee to be inconsistent with... | |
 | John Philip Sanderson - Naturalization - 1856 - 404 pages
...I have not the New Hampshire Constitution of 1783 now before me. In Massachusetts, the rule was, " a freehold estate within the commonwealth, of the...pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds ;" in New York, it was " a freehold of the value of twenty pounds within the county," or a leasehold... | |
 | United States - Emigration and immigration law - 1856 - 350 pages
...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, for the said town.... | |
 | Massachusetts - Law - 1856 - 430 pages
...of electing persons to be senators and councillors ; and at such meetings every male inhabitant of twenty-one years of age and upwards, having a freehold estate, within the CornArt, in. monwealth, of the annual income of three pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds,... | |
 | Massachusetts - Law - 1859 - 568 pages
...Arts*mTiimea'nd for the space of one year next preceding, having a freehold 3UL estate within the same town, of the annual income of three pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty ponnds, shall have a right to vote in the choice of a representative or representatives for the said... | |
 | Massachusetts - Law - 1860 - 1158 pages
...every male ni?t8ix7'™d inhabitant of twenty-one years of age and upwards, having a freehold xxiti. 6 V *Gʛ V < J8 I dQ z>6P2ާI D xP,G 5 Bt 1 F V nL NCPT ,b P ^ IPC Y$N RXCCɥ ~ $* k Jw shall have a right to give in his rote for the senators for the district of which he is an inhabitant.... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1841 - 704 pages
...twenty-one years of age, and having resided in the State for one year, and having a freehold estate of the annual income of three pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds. Yet it is believed that aliens, since the adoption of the federal Constitution, have not been allowed... | |
 | Massachusetts - Session laws - 1862 - 448 pages
...lKM'suns to lio senators ;uill councillors ; and at u*xxiii. XX' sucn meetings every male inhabitant of twenty-one years of age and upwards, having a freehold...pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds, shall have a right to give in his vote for the senators for the district of which he is an word " inhah-... | |
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Councillors ; and at such meetings every male inhabitant of twentyone years of age and upwards, having a freehold estate within the Commonwealth, of the annual income of three pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds... 
