 | Massachusetts. Attorney General's Office - 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... | |
 | Massachusetts - 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... | |
 | 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...provided, however, that the provisions of this amendment lhall not apply to any person prevented by a physical disability from complying with its requisitions,... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - 1862 - 438 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...this commonwealth, who shall not be able to read the constitu- . tion in the English language, and write his name." The state is divided into judicial districts.... | |
 | Boston (Mass.). - 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 from complying... | |
 | 1865 - 594 pages
...the Constitution of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, is found the following provision : Art 20. — No person shall have the right to vote, or be eligible...constitution of this commonwealth, who shall not be gble to read the Constitution in the English language, and write his name ; provided however, that... | |
 | Robert Allen Campbell - 1866 - 390 pages
...the right to vote, or is eligible to office under the Constitution of this Commonwealth, who is not able to read the Constitution in the English language, and write his name. State election, first Tuesday in November. The Legislature meets annually on the first Wednesday in... | |
 | 1867 - 854 pages
...was ratified by the people of Massachusetts in 1357. as an amendment to the Constitution. Акт. XX. No person shall have the right to vote, or be eligible...constitution in the English language and write his name : prooided, however, that the provisions of this amendment shall not apply to any person prevented... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1867 - 862 pages
...was ratified by the people of Massachusetts in 1857. as an amendment to the Constitution. ART. XX. No person shall have the right to vote, or be eligible to office under thî constitution of this Commonwealth, who shall not be able to read the constitution in the English... | |
 | George Washington Paschal - 1868 - 448 pages
...Id. 294. Amendment, Art. XX. No person shall have the right to vote, or be eligible to office, under this Commonwealth, who shall not be able to read the...amendment shall not apply to any person prevented by physical disability from complying with its requiai,*• tions, nor to any person who now has the right... | |
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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, hoicever, that the provisions of this... 
