provided, that the registry tax of every person who has performed military duty, according to the provisions of the preceding section, shall be remitted for the year he shall perform such duty; and the registry tax assessed upon any mariner for any year while he is at sea shall, upon his application, be remitted, and no person shall be allowed to vote whose registry tax for either of the two years next preceding the time of voting is not paid or remitted, as herein provided.

No person in the military, naval, marine or other service of the United States, shall be considered as having the required residence by reason of being employed in any garrison, barrack, or military or naval station in this state, and no pauper, lunatic, person non compos mentis, person under guardianship, or member of the Narragansett tribe of Indians, shall be permitted to be registered or to vote. Nor shall any person convicted of bribery, or of any crime deemed infamous at common law, be permitted to exercise that privilege until he be expressly restored thereto by act of the general assembly.

Persons residing on lands ceded by this state to the United States, shall not be entitled to exercise the privilege of electors.

The general assembly shall have full power to provide for a registry of voters, to prescribe the manner of conducting the elections, the form of certificates, the nature of the evidence to be required in case of a dispute as to the right of any person to vote, and generally to enact

all laws necessary to carry this article into effect, and to prevent abuse, corruption and fraud in voting.

[Electors who, in time of war, are absent from the state in the actual military service of the United States, being otherwise qualified, have the right to vote, under such regulations as the legislature prescribes. Amendment of 1864.]

See State v. Fitzpatrick, 4 R. I., 269; Appeal of Peace, 6 R. I., 589.

INDIANA.

The Indiana constitution provides that

In all elections not otherwise provided for by this constitution, every [white] male citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, who shall have resided in the state during the six months immediately preceding such election, and every [white] male of foreign birth, of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, who shall have resided in the United States one year, and shall have resided in this state during the six months immediately preceding such election, and shall have declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States, conformably to the laws of the United States on the subject of naturalization, shall be entitled to vote in the township or precinct where he may reside.

No soldier, seaman or marine in the army or navy of the United States, or of their allies, shall be deemed to have acquired a residence in the state, in consequence of

having been stationed within the same; nor shall any such soldier, seaman or marine, have the right to vote.

No person shall be deemed to have lost his residence in the state by reason of his absence, either on business of the state or of the United States.

[No negro or mulatto shall have the right of suffrage.] The general assembly shall have power to deprive of the right of suffrage, and to render ineligible, any person convicted of an infamous crime.

(The words and section in brackets have been abrogated by the amendments to the federal constitution.)

MICHIGAN.

The suffrage provisions of the Michigan constitution. are as follows:

In all elections, every male citizen, every 'male inhabitant, residing in the state on the twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, every male inhabitant residing in the state on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, who has declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States, pursuant to the laws thereof, six months preceding an election, or who has resided in this state two years and six months, and declared his intention as aforesaid, and every civilized male inhabitant of Indian descent, a native of the United States, and not a member of any tribe, shall be an elector and entitled to vote; but no citizen or inhabitant shall be an elector, or

entitled to vote at any election, unless he shall be above the age of twenty-one years, and has resided in this state three months, and in the township or ward in which he offers to vote ten days next preceding such election; provided, that in time of war, insurrection or rebellion, no qualified elector in the actual military service of the United States or of this state, in the army or navy thereof, shall be deprived of his vote by reason of his absence from the township, ward or state in which he resides; and the legislature shall have the power and shall provide the manner in which, and the time and place at which such absent electors may vote, and for the canvass and return of their votes to the township or ward election district in which they respectively reside, or otherwise.

No elector shall be deemed to have gained or lost a residence by reason of his being employed in the service of the United States or of this state; nor while engaged in the navigation of the waters of this state or of the United States, or of the high seas; nor while a student of any seminary of learning; nor while kept at any alms house, or other asylum at public expense; nor while confined in any public prison.

Laws may be passed to preserve the purity of elections and guard against abuses of the elective franchise.

No soldier, seaman nor marine, in the army or navy of the United States, shall be deemed a resident of this state, in consequence of being stationed in any naval or military place within the same.

Any inhabitant who may hereafter be engaged in a duel, either as principal or accessory before the fact, shall be disqualified from holding any office under the constitution and laws of this state, and shall not be permitted to vote at any election.

ILLINOIS.

In Illinois it is provided that—

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, or obtained a certificate of naturalization, before any court of record in this state, prior to the 1st day of January, in the year 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.

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 of this state, or in the military. or naval service of the United States.

No soldier, seaman or marine in the army or navy of the United States shall be deemed a resident of this state in consequence of being stationed therein.

The general assembly shall pass laws excluding from the right of suffrage persons convicted of infamous crimes.

See Sprague v. Houghton, 3 Ill. (2 Scam.) 377.