| Jonathan French - 1847 - 506 pages
...counsellors. And at such meetings every male inhabitant, of twenty-one years of age and upwards, having a freehold estate within the commonwealth of the annual...pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds, shall have a right to give in his vote for the senators for the district of which he is an inhabitant.... | |
| John Bigelow - 1848 - 538 pages
...counselors. And at such meetings every male inhabitant, of twenty-one years of age and upwards, having a freehold estate within the commonwealth of the annual...pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds, shall have a right to give in his vote for the senators for the district of which he is an inhabitant... | |
| 1849 - 770 pages
...have hot the Newr Hampshire constitution of 1783 now before me. In Massachusetts, the rule was, "a freehold estate within the commonwealth, of the annual...pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds." In New York, it was " a freehold of the value of twenty pounds within the county," or a leasehold " of... | |
| John Adams - 1851 - 666 pages
...and upwards, resident in such towns one year next preceding the annual election of senators, having a freehold estate within the commonwealth of the annual income of three pounds, or other real or personal estate of the value of sixty pounds, shall have a right to give in his vote... | |
| Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - 1853 - 158 pages
...counsellors; and, at such meetings, every [male inhabitant of twenty-one years of age and upwards, having a freehold estate, within the Commonwealth, of the annual...pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds,] shall have a right to give in his vote for the senators for the district of which he is an inhabitant.... | |
| Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention, Nathan Hale - 1853 - 700 pages
...every male inhabitant of twenty-one years of age and upwards, having a freehold estate, within this Commonwealth, of the annual income of three pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds, shall have a right to give in his vote for the senators for the district of which he is an inhabitant.... | |
| Massachusetts - 1853 - 108 pages
...amend- space of one year next preceding, having a freehold estate, ments, Art. m. w^}1jn ^e same town, of the annual income of three pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds, shall have a right to vote in the choice of a representative or representatives for the said town.... | |
| Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 pages
...counsellors. And at such meetings every male inhabitant, of twenty-one years of age and upwards, having a freehold estate within the commonwealth of the annual...pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds, shall have a right to give in his vote for the senators for the district of which he is an inhabitant.... | |
| William Hyslop Sumner - 1854 - 90 pages
...year's residence in the town in which he claimed to vote, " he had a freehold estate in the same town, of the annual income of three pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds." If there were no pecuniary qualification, a pauper's vote would balance that of him who had everything... | |
| 1855 - 576 pages
...counsellors. And at such meetings every male inhabitant, of twenty-one years of age and upwards, having a freehold estate within the commonwealth of the annual...pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds, shall have a right to give in his vote for the senators for the district of which he is an inhabitant.... | |
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