thereof; and when it is so provided, no person shall vote at any election unless he shall have registered as required by law.

It shall be the duty of the general assembly to pass adequate laws giving protection against the evils arising from the use of intoxicating liquors at elections.

ARKANSAS.

The franchise article is as follows:

Every male citizen of the United States, or male person who has declared his intention of becoming the same, of the age of twenty-one years, who has resided in the state twelve months, and in the county six months, and in the voting precinct or ward one month, next preceding any election, where he may propose to vote, shall be entitled to vote at all elections by the people.

Elections shall be free and equal. No power, civil or military, shall ever interfere to prevent the free exercise of the right of suffrage; nor shall any law be enacted whereby the right to vote at any election shall be made to depend upon any previous registration of the elector's name; or whereby such right shall be impaired or forfeited, except for the commission of a felony at common law, upon lawful conviction thereof.

No idiot or insane person shall be entitled to the privileges of an elector.

No soldier, sailor or marine, in the military or naval

service of the United States, shall acquire a residence by reason of being stationed on duty in this state.1

Absence on business of the state or of the United States, or on a visit, or on necessary private business, shall not cause a forfeiture of residence once obtained.

WEST VIRGINIA.

The constitution of West Virginia provides: The male citizens of the state shall be entitled to vote at all elections held within the counties in which they respectively reside; but no person who is a minor, or of unsound. mind, or a pauper, or who is under conviction of treason, felony or bribery at an election, or who has not been a resident of the state for one year, and of the county in which he offers to vote for sixty days next preceding such offer, shall be permitted to vote while such disability continues; but no person in the military, naval or marine service of the United States shall be deemed a resident of this state by reason of being stationed therein.

No citizen shall ever be denied or refused the right or privilege of voting at an election because his name is not or has not been registered or listed as a qualified

voter.

The legislature shall prescribe the manner of conducting and making returns of elections, and of determining

1. See case of John Bailey, Cl. & Hall, 411, "An inhabitant of the state is one who is bona fide a member of the state, subject to all the requisitions of its laws, and entitled to all the privileges and advantages which they confer."

contested elections; and shall pass such laws as may be necessary and proper to prevent intimidation, disorder or violence at the polls, and corruption or fraud in voting, counting the vote, ascertaining or declaring the result, or fraud in any manner upon the ballot.

NEVADA.

The constitution of Nevada provides:

Every male citizen of the United States (not laboring under the disabilities named in this constitution) of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, who shall have actually, and not constructively, resided in the state six months, and in the district or county thirty days next preceding any election, shall be entitled to vote for all officers that now are or hereafter may be elected by the people, and upon all questions submitted to the electors at such elections; provided, that no person who has been or may be convicted of treason or felony in any state or territory of the United States, unless restored to civil rights; and no person who, after arriving at the age of eighteen years, shall have voluntarily borne arms against the United States, or held civil or military office under the so-called Confederate States, or either of them, unless an amnesty be granted to such by the federal government, and no idiot or insane person, shall be entitled to the privilege of an elector.

For the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed to have gained or lost a residence by reason of his pres

ence or absence while employed in the service of the United States; nor while engaged in the navigation of the waters of the United States, or of the high seas; nor while a student of any seminary of learning; nor while kept at any alms house, or other asylum, at public expense; nor while confined in any public prison.

The right of suffrage shall be enjoyed by all persons otherwise entitled to the same, who may be in the military or naval service of the United States; provided, that the votes so cast shall be made to apply to the county and township of which said voters were bona fide residents at the time of their enlistment; and provided further, that the payment of a poll tax or a registration of such voters shall not be required as a condition to the right of voting.

Provision shall be made by law for the registration of the names of the electors within the counties of which they may be residents, and for the ascertainment by proper proofs of the persons who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage, as hereby established; to preserve the purity of elections, and to regulate the manner of holding and making the returns of the same; and the legislature shall have power to prescribe by law any other or further rules or oaths as may be deemed necessary as a test of electoral qualification.

The legislature shall provide by law for the payment of an annual poll-tax, of not less than two nor exceeding four dollars, for each male person resident in the state, between the ages of twenty-one and thirty years, (un

civilized American Indians excepted,) one-half to be applied for state and one-half for county purposes; and the legislature may, in its discretion, make such payment a condition to the right of voting.

Laws shall be passed regulating elections, and prohibiting, under adequate penalties, all undue influence therein from power, bribery, tumult or other improper practice.

No person who, while a citizen of this state, has since the adoption of this constitution (1864), had any connection with duelling, can vote.

NEBRASKA.

By the constitution of Nebraska it is provided that— Every male person of the age of twenty-one years or upwards, belonging to either of the following classes, who shall have resided in the state, county, precinct and ward for the time provided by law,1 shall be an elector:

First. Citizens of the United States.

Second. Persons of foreign birth who shall have declared their intention to become citizens conformably to the laws of the United States on the subject of naturalization at least thirty days prior to an election.

No person shall be qualified to vote who is non compos mentis, or who has been convicted of treason or felony

1. The revised statutes of Nebraska, 1873, title elections, section 29, page 360, requires an actual and consecutive residence in the state for six months, in the county forty days consecutively, and in the precinct or ward ten days, next preceding the election.