OF

SUFFRAGE AND ELECTIONS

BEING A COMPENDIUM OF CASES AND DECISIONS SHOWING THE ORIGIN
OF THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE, AND DEFINING CITIZENSHIP AND
LEGAL RESIDENCE, TOGETHER WITH THE CLAUSES OF THE
STATE CONSTITUTIONS PRESCRIBING THE QUALI-
FICATIONS FOR SUFFRAGE, AND THE LAW
GOVERNING THE CONDUCT OF ELEC-

TIONS IN THE SEVERAL STATES.

WITH AN APPENDIX

CONTAINING THE PROVISIONS OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION
AND REVISED STATUTES REGULATING THE ELECTION OF

PRESIDENT, SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES.

By M. D. NAAR,

COUNSELOR-AT-LAW.

TRENTON, N. J.:
NAAR, DAY & NAAR, PRINTERS.

1880.

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

THENEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY

72991
ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

1897.

DEDICATION.

TO THE VOTERS

OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

IN WHOSE HANDS

A FREE BALLOT,

FEARLESSLY AND INCORRUPTIBLY USED,

MUST EVER BE THE BEST MEANS OF MAINTAINING

PURE AND FREE GOVERNMENT,

AND OF
PRESERVING PUBLIC LIBERTY,
THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY

ONE OF THEIR NUMBER.

THE AUTHOR.