The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-10-16
TUE FRANCHISE.
Full Text of the Article Adopt
ed by the Convention.

Section l. All elections by the peO-
pie shall be by ballot.
Sec. 2. Every male inhabitant Of
this State, except idiots, insane per-
sons and Indians not taxed, who is Il
citizen of the United States, 81 years
old and upwards, who has resided in
the State two years, and one year in
the election district or in the incOrpO-
rated city or town in which he offers
to vote, and who is duly registered
rs provided in section of this arti-
| Gle, and who has never been convict
ed of bribery, burglary, theft, arson,
obtaining money or goods under false
pretehses, perjury, forgery, embezzle
ment NJ bigamy, and who has paid on
or before the first day of February of
the year in which he shall offer to
vote, all taxes which may have been
legally required Of him, and which
he has had an opportunity of paying
according to law for the two preced-
ing years, and who shall produce to
the officers holding the election salts
factory evidence that he has paid
said taxes, is declared to be q quail
fed elector; provided, any minister
of the gospel in charge of an organ
lied church shall be entitled to vote
after six months residence in the cleo
ton district if otherwise qualified.
Sec. 3. The Legislature shall pro-
vide bt law for the registration of all
persons entitled to vote at any cleo
ton, and all persons offering to regis,
ter shall take the following oath or
affirmation 81, -, do solemnly
swear Tor at1irm) that | am twenty
one years old aud that | will have re-
sided i'll this State two years and in
--~ election district of -COun-
ty one year next preceding the ensu-
ing election" Tor if a minister of the
gospel in charge of an organized
church, two years residence in the
State and six months in said election
district} "and am now in good faith a
resident in the same, and that | am
not disqualified from voting by reason
of having been convicted of any crime
named in the Constitution of this
State as a qualification to be an cleo
tor, that | Will truly answer all ques-
tons pfopOunded to me concerning
my antecedents so far as they relate
TO my right to vote, and also as to my
residence before my citizenship in
this district; that | will faithfully sup
port the Constitution of the United
States and the State of Mississippi;
and will bear true faith and allegiance
10 the same, so help me Cody Any
willful and corrupt false statement in
said affidavit, or i'll answer to any ma
terial questions propounded as herein
| anthnriza1 shall hn 1IarinrU
Sec. 4. A uniform poll tax of two
dollars is hereby imposed on every
male inhabitant of this State between
the ages of twenty-onG and sixty
years, except persons who are deaf
and dumb or blind, or who are maim-
cd by loss of hand or foot, to be used
in aid of the common schools and for
no other purposes; said tax to De q
lien only upon taxable property; pro-
vided, however, that the board of SUI
pervisOrs of any county may, for the
purpose of aiding the common schools
in that county, increase the poll tax
in said county, but in no case shall
the entire poll tax exceed in any one
year three dollars on each head. The
payment of the whole poll tax i'm
posed is declared to be qualification
to vote; provided; further, that no
criminal proceedings shall be allowed
to enforce the collection of the poll
! tax.
Sec 5. On and after the first day of
January, A. ID. 1892, the following
qualifications are added to the fore
going: Every qualified elector shall
be able to read any section of the
Constitution of this State; or he shall
be able to understand the same when
read to him, or give reasonable in
depreciation thereof. A new registra-
ton shall be made before the next en-
suing election after these qualifica-
lions are established.
Sec. 6. Electors in municipal cleo
ti6ns shall possess all the qualifica-
tions herein prescribed and such adj
ditional qualifications as may be pre-
scribed by law.
Sec. 7. Prior to the first day of JAN
dary, A. d. 1892, the elections by the
people in this State shall be regulat-
ed by an ordinance of this Conven-
ton.