 | Massachusetts. Attorney General's Office - 1915 - 396 sider
...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. General Court. House of Representatives - 1856 - 1442 sider
...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 English language, and write his... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1857 - 518 sider
...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... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1859 - 568 sider
...of this Commonof Tote'rlflca" wealth* who shall not be able to read the constitution in the Proviso. English language, and write his name : provided, however, that the provisions of this amendment shall not apply to any person prevented by a physical disability from complying with its... | |
 | JEREMIAH SPOFFORD, M.D. - 1860 - 390 sider
...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 English language, and write his... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1860 - 1158 sider
...people of the several districts, for such term of office as the legislature shall prescribe. 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 English language, and write his... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - 1862 - 438 sider
...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 the English language, and write... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1862 - 448 sider
...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 English language and write his... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1862 - 450 sider
...eligible to office under the constitution of this CoinmonToten!^ wealtn? wn<> suaU not ^e °^e to rea<l the constitution in the English language and write...name : provided, however, that the provisions of this amendment shall not apply to any person prevented by a physical disability from complying with its... | |
 | Boston (Mass.). - 1864 - 972 sider
...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... | |
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English language, and write his name: provided, however, that the provisions of this amendment shall not apply to any person prevented by a physical disability from complying with its requisitions, nor to any person who now has the right to vote, nor... 
