 | Massachusetts. Attorney General's Office - 1915 - 396 pages
...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 in the proper handwriting of the voter or officer is plainly contemplated. The fact that... | |
 | New York (State). Secretary's Office - 1923 - 1154 pages
...Maine Read Constitution of the State in English language, and write his name. Massachusetts. . . Read Constitution in the English language and write his name unless prevented by a physical disability. Mississippi Read or understand the Constitution. New Hampshire. . Read five... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives - 1856 - 1442 pages
...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...Constitution in the English language, and write his name. Provided, however, That the provisions of this Amendment shall not apply to any person prevented by... | |
 | JEREMIAH SPOFFORD, M.D. - 1860 - 390 pages
...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...constitution in the English language, and write his name : provided, however, that the provisions of this amendment lhall not apply to any person prevented... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1860 - 1158 pages
...legislature shall prescribe. ART. XX. No person shall have the right to vote, or be eligible to office under f any of its members, for any thing said or done in...shall assault any of them therefor ; or who shall : provided, however, that the provisions of this amendment shall not apply to any person prevented... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1862 - 448 pages
...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...constitution in the English language and write his name : provided, however, that the provisions of this amendment shall not apply to any person prevented... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - 1862 - 438 pages
...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 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
...provided that: — ART. 20. — 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 larigatige, and write his name; provided however, that the provisions of this amendment shall not apply... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
