Complex sentence: Yet there were more than 800 new freemen who were only barred from voting because there was nobody to swear them in; finally a new charter was granted, in time to enfranchise them for the election of 1810.
Split into simpler sentences: Yet there were more than 800 new freemen who were only barred from voting because there was nobody to swear them in. Finally a new charter was granted, in time to enfranchise them for the election of 1810.