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Sec. 5. Qualifications of electors of members of the Legislature.

"All inhabitants of this colony, of full age, who are worth fifty pounds proclamation money, clear estate in the same, and have resided within the county in which they claim a vote, for twelve months immediately preceding the election."Const. Art. 4.

By the fourth section of the act of the 1st of June, A. D. 1820, it is declared that the word "inhabitants" extends only "to free, white, male, citizens of this state" and (by the fifth section) that every such citizen "who shall have paid a tax for the use of the county or the State, and whose name shall be enrolled on any duplicate list of the last state or county tax, shall be adjudged by the officers conducting the election, to be worth fifty pounds money aforesaid clear estate." By the sixth section, citizens otherwise qualified, who have arrived to the age of twentyone years since the date of the last duplicate, or who have removed from one township wherein they have paid a tax, to another township in the said county, or who have been inadvertently

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