That every free white male inhabitant above the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a resident of said Territory at the time of the passage of this act, shall be entitled to vote at the first election, and shall be eligible to any office within... Albany Law Journal - Page 2901889Full view - About this book
| Sociology - 1921 - 352 pages
...act, shall be entitled to vote at the first election, and shall be eligible to any office within the said territory; but the qualifications of voters and...be exercised only by citizens of the United States, and those who shall have declared, on oath, their intention to become such, and shall have taken an... | |
| Kansas - 1918 - 664 pages
...shall be eligible to any office within the said Territory ; but the qualifications of voters and for holding office at all subsequent elections shall be...be exercised only by citizens of the United States and those who have declared, on oath, their intention to become such, and shall have taken an oath... | |
| Clement Augustus Lounsberry - History - 1919 - 838 pages
...act, shall be entitled to vote at the first election, and shall be eligible to any office within the said Territory; but the qualifications of voters and...be exercised only by citizens of the United States and those who shall have declared on oath their intention to become such, and shall have taken an oath... | |
| United States. Department of the Interior - Public lands - 1919 - 680 pages
...Stat, 446-449), establishing a territorial government for New Mexico, section 6 of which provides " that the right of suffrage and of holding office, shall be exercised only by citizen* of the United States, including those recogrized as citizens by the treaty with the Republic... | |
| United States. Department of Justice - Administrative law - 1920 - 740 pages
...nevertheless, to the following restrictions on the power of the legislative assembly, namely: "First. The right of suffrage and of holding office shall...by citizens of the United States above the age of twenty -one years, and by those above that age who have declared on oath, before a competent court... | |
| Sociology - 1921 - 350 pages
...act, shall be entitled to vote at the first election, and shall be eligible to any office within the said territory; but the qualifications of voters and...be exercised only by citizens of the United States, and those who shall have declared, on oath, their intention to become such; and shall have taken an... | |
| Samuel Storrs Howe, Theodore Sutton Parvin, Frederick Lloyd, Sanford W. Huff, Charles Aldrich, Edgar Rubey Harlan - Iowa - 1925 - 694 pages
...of Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Utah, and New Mexico which we have referred to, we find it expressly "provided that the right of suffrage and of holding...exercised only by citizens of the United States." How you could have been so indiscreet, sir, as to make the assertions you have about the "uniform practice"... | |
| Law - 1890 - 572 pages
...territory, subject, nevertheless, to the following restrictions : Firet, that tbe right of suffrage aiid of holding office shall be exercised only by citizens...of the United States above the age of twenty-one, or persons above that age who have declared their intention to become such citizens; second, that the... | |
| United States - 1900 - 1004 pages
...twenty-one years . . . shall be entitled to vote at the first election, . . . but the qualification of voters and of holding office at all subsequent...exercised only by citizens of the United States, above the 430 The Denials of God 431 age of twenty-one years," etc. The ground on which the Supreme Court of... | |
| United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio) - American newspapers - 1936 - 588 pages
...the Nebraska bill, he moved that the proviso should read: "Provided that the right of suffrage and holding office shall be exercised only by citizens of the United States." This proviso CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1854. UNITED STATES TERRITORIES & POSSESSIONS... | |
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