 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
 | John Gaylord Wells - Politicians - 1857 - 150 pages
...prescribed, 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,...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... | |
 | Michael W. Cluskey - Political Science - 1857 - 672 pages
...net, shiill be entitled to vote nt the first «lection, and shall be eliciU» to any office In the said territory ; but the qualifications of voters and of holding office at all subsequent elections ^hall be euch ая shall be presented by the Le^iclalive Assembly : Provided, That the ri,;ht of sutTratie... | |
 | Kansas - Law - 1858 - 482 pages
...be entitled to vote at the of voter*, first election, and shall be eligible to any ofGce within the said Territory ; but the qualifications of voters,...Legislative Assembly : Provided, that the right of saf- Proviso, frage and of holding office shall be exercised only by citizens of the United States... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1858 - 686 pages
...who " 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...shall be prescribed by the legislative assembly." The provisos have no application whatever to the subject, inasmuch as they only prohibit the legislature... | |
 | United States - 1858 - 798 pages
...prescribing the qualifications for voters at the "first election," declare that "the qualification of voters and of holding office at all subsequent...shall be prescribed by the legislative assembly." The power, then, to prescribe the qualification of voters in all elections but the first being vested... | |
 | Nebraska - Session laws - 1858 - 80 pages
...prescribed, 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...office, at all subsequent elections, shall be such as «hall be prescribed by the Legislative Assembly : Provided, Proviso. That the right of suffrage and... | |
 | Judah Philip Benjamin - Kansas - 1858 - 246 pages
...prescribed the qualifications .of voters. How long to continue, sir? Until the first election only. And the qualifications of voters and of holding office at all subsequent elections, shall be prescribed by the Legislative Assembly. Which is the higher prerogative of sovereignty, to prescribe... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - New York (State) - 1858 - 404 pages
...the first election, and s .be eligible to any office within the said Territory; but the qualitieat of voters, and of holding office, at all subsequent elections, shall be s as shall be prescribed by the Legislative Assembly. kh. — This Territory, organized by act of Congress,... | |
 | Albert Gallatin Brown - United States - 1859 - 636 pages
...prescribed, 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,...be exercised only by citizens of the United States" — Now comes the part proposed to be stricken out : — " and (hose who shall have declared on oath... | |
 | Michael W. Cluskey - United States - 1859 - 812 pages
...prescribed, 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...holding office shall be exercised only by citizens ot the United States above the age of twenty-one years, and those above that age who shall have declared... | |
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