The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-07-02
THE SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT
REPORTED TO THE ALABAMA C0NSTI-
TlONAL CONVENTION.
Requires Prepayment of Poll and Ger
tain Property Tax-An Educational
qualification Also Imposed-A Long
List Of Crimes Designated as Dis.
qualifying Those Guilty OF Their Per-
War Veterans and Their Descendants


frsge and election article for the pro-
posed new constitution was submitted
to the constitutional convention today
1t provides that, to vote at any cleo
ton a citizen shall have resided in the
state at least two years, the county one
year and the precinct or ward three
months preceding the election and he
shall have paid all poll taxes due.
Following are the male citizens, who
are citizens OF the United States, 81
years old or upwards, qualified to regis
ter prior to January 1, 1903:
All who have honorably served in the
land or naval forces Of the United
States in the war Of 1912 or in the war
of Mexico or in any war with the In
dians or in the civil war between the
states, or who honorably served in the
land forces of the Confederate States,
and the lawful descendants of persons
above mentioned; all others of good
character and who understand the
duties of citizenship and the obligations
of the elective franchise.
After first day Of January 1903, the
following persons and no other shall
be qualified to register as electors:
Those who can unless prevented by
physical disability read, and write any
article of the constitution of the United
States in the English language and
who, being physically able to work,
have been regularly engaged in some
lawful business or occupation, trade
or calling for twelve months next pre-
ceding the time they offer to register;
the owner in good faith in his own
right. or the husband of a woman who
| is the owner of forty acres of land in
| the state, upon which they reside, or
| the husband of any woman who is the
| owner in her own right, of real estate
| in Alabama, of the value Of $500 or
| more: or the owner. or the husband OF
personal property assessed at $500 or
more; provided, that all taxes due by
him for the year next preceding shall
lave been paid.
Following are the persons disquali-
fed both from registering and voting:
ALI idiots and insane persons; those
| who shall be disqualified from voting at
the time of the ratification of this con-
| stitution and those who shall have been
| convicted of treason, murder, arson.
| embezzlement. malfeasance in office.
larceny. obtaining property or money
under false pretense. perjury, suborna-
ton of perjury, robbery, assault with
intent to rob, forgery, bribery, assault
and battery on the wife, bigamy, living
in adnltry, receiving stolen property,
sodony incest, rape, miscengenatlon,
crime against nature, or any crime
punishable by Imprisonment in the
penitentiary or of any infamous crime
or crimes involing moral turpitude;
also persons who shall have been con-
victed as vagrants and tramps, and any
person who shall sell or offer to sell his
vote or the vote of another, or who
shall buy or offer to buy the vote OF an
other, in any election by the people or
in any primary election. or to procure
the nomination or election of any per-
son to any office or who shall suborn
any witness or registrar to secure the
registration of any person as an elector
A poll tax of s1.5O and county regis
tratioi boards are provided for.