| Massachusetts. Attorney General's Office - 1915 - 396 Seiten
...consideration. This amendment provides that no person shall have the right to vote or be eligible to office who shall not be able to read the Constitution in the English language, and write his name. A signature in the proper handwriting of the voter or officer is plainly contemplated. The fact that... | |
| JEREMIAH SPOFFORD, M.D. - 1860 - 390 Seiten
...as the legislature shall prescribe. No person shall have the right to vote, or be eligible to office under the constitution of this Commonwealth, who shall...provided, however, that the provisions of this amendment lhall not apply to any person prevented by a physical disability from complying with its requisitions,... | |
| Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - 1862 - 438 Seiten
...organic law, however, declares, that "no person shall have the right to vote, or be eligible to office under the constitution of this commonwealth, who shall not be able to read the constitu- . tion in the English language, and write his name." The state is divided into judicial districts.... | |
| Boston (Mass.). - 1864 - 972 Seiten
...By the twentieth, amendment of the Constitution of the State, no person shall have a right to vote " who shall not be able to read the Constitution in the English language and write his name." The amendment does not, however, apply to any person prevented by a physical disability from complying... | |
| 1865 - 594 Seiten
...is provided that: — ART. 20. — No person shall have the right to vote, or be eligible to office under the constitution of this commonwealth, who shall...not be able to read the Constitution in the English larigatige, and write his name; provided however, that the provisions of this amendment shall not apply... | |
| Robert Allen Campbell - 1866 - 390 Seiten
...the right to vote, or is eligible to office under the Constitution of this Commonwealth, who is not able to read the Constitution in the English language, and write his name. State election, first Tuesday in November. The Legislature meets annually on the first Wednesday in... | |
| 1867 - 854 Seiten
...amendment to the Constitution. Акт. XX. No person shall have the right to vote, or be eligible to office under the constitution of this Commonwealth, who shall...constitution in the English language and write his name : prooided, however, that the provisions of this amendment shall not apply to any person prevented... | |
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