Evening star., 1901-06-29
Provisions Of Suggested Article in
Alabama's Constitution
n. r. ITS PROVISIONS
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MONTGOMERY Ala, June 29.-A suf-
frage and elections article for the pro-
posed new constitution was submitted to
the constitutional convention today. It
provides that. to vote at any election. a
citizen shall have resided In the state at
least two years. county one year and pre-
cfnct or ward three months preceding the
election and he will have been duly regis
tered and shall have paid all poll taxes due.
Following are the male citizens, who are
citizens Of the United States. twenty-one
years old or upward. qualified to register
prior to January 1, 1903:
All who have honorabiy served in the
land or naval forces Of the United States
in the war of 1872, or in the war with
Mexico Or in any war with the Indians, or
in the civil war between the states, or who
honorably served in the land or naval
forces of the confederate states.
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.
Those Qualified to Vote.
After the first day of January, 1903, the
following persons. and no others, shall be
qualified to register as electors:
Those who can, unless prevented by ply
Of the Constitution of the United States in
the English language and who. being ply
sically able to work, have been regularly
engaged in some lawful business or occu-
paticn. trade or calling for twelve months
next preceding the time they offer to reg
lister.
The owner in good faith in his own right,
or the husband Of 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 or real estate in Alabama Of the
value of $500 or more, or the owner or the
husband of a woman who is owner in her
own right Of personal property assessed at
$500 or more; provided. that all taxes due
by him for the year next preceding shall
have been paid.
The Disqualified Glass.
Following are asthe persons disqualified
both from registering and from voting:
All idiots and insane persons, those who
shall be disqualified from voting at the
time Of the ratification of this constitution,
and those who shall have been convicted
malfeasance IL offYee, larceny, obtaining
property or nfOney under false pretenses
perjury, subornatton Of perjury, robbery,
assault with intent to rob. forgery, bribery
assault and battery on the wife, bigamy
living In adultery, receiving stolen prop
erty, sodomy, incest, rape, miscegenation
crime againt nature. or any crime punish
able by Imprisonment in the penitentiary,
or of any Infamous crime or crimes in
volving moral .turpitude; also persons who
shall have been convicted as vagrants and
tramps. and any person who shall sell or
offer to sell his vote or the vote Of an
other. or who shall buy or offer to buy the
vote of another. In any election by the peo-
pie or in any primary election. or to pro-
cure the nomination election Of any per-
son to any office, or who shall suborn any
witness or registrar to secure the registra-
tion Of any person as an elector.
A poll tax Of 81 80 and county registra-
tion boards are provided for