RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE IN EACH STATE. MAINE. The right of suffrage is nearly universal, being granted to all male citizens of twenty-one years of age and upwards, who have resided in the State for three months next preceding the election. Paupers, persons under guardianship, and Indians not taxed, are excepted. NEW HAMPSHIRE. Right of suffrage granted to all males of twenty-one years of age and upwards, excepting paupers, and persons excused from paying taxes at their special request. VERMONT. Right of suffrage extends to all males of twenty-one years of age and upwards, who have resided one year in the State next preceding the election, and are of a quiet and peaceable behavior. MASSACHUSETTS. Right of suffrage extends to all males of twenty-one years of age and upwards (paupers and persons under guardianship excepted), who have resided within the Commonwealth one year, and within the town or district in which they may claim a right to vote, six months next preceding any election, and who have paid a State or county tax assessed upon them within two years next preceding such election, and also to every citizen who may be by law exempted from taxation, and who may be, in all other respects, qualified as above mentioned. CONNECTICUT. Must be of age, have gained a settlement in the State six months, done military duty, paid a State tax, and taken the prescribed oaths. RHODE ISLAND. Three months' residence, and own a freehold of one hundred and thirty-four dollars. Must have attained the age of twenty-one. NEW YORK. Right of suffrage extends to all males of twenty-one years of age, inhabitants of the State for the last year, and residents of the county for the last six months. A colored man must have resided in the State three years, and hold a freehold of two hundred and fifty dollars, free of all incumbrance. NEW JERSEY. The language of the Constitution on this point is, that all persons of full age shall have a right to vote, who are worth fifty pounds, proclamation money, clear estate in the same, and have resided in the county in which they claim to vote, for twelve months immediately preceding the election. By a special act of the Legislature, every white male inhabitant of lawful age, and who has paid a tax, is considered worth fifty pounds, and therefore entitled to vote. |