house or asylum, or of unsound mind, or confined in any public prison, shall be allowed to vote or hold office. It shall be the duty of the general assembly to provide, from time to time, for the registration of all voters.

For the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed to have lost his residence by reason of absence while employed in the service of the United States, nor while engaged upon the waters of this state or the United States, or of the high seas, nor while temporarily absent from the state.

No soldier, seaman or marine in the army or navy of the United States, shall be deemed a resident of this state in consequence of having been stationed therein.

The general assembly shall never pass any law that will deprive any of the citizens of this state of the right of suffrage, except for treason, murder, robbery or duelling whereof the persons shall have been duly tried and convicted.

No person shall be disfranchised for felony, or other crime committed while such person was a slave.

GEORGIA.

It is provided by the Georgia constitution thatEvery male person born in the United States, and every male person who has been naturalized, or who has legally declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States, twenty-one years old or upward, who shall have resided in this state six months next preceding the

election, and shall have resided thirty days in the county in which he offers to vote, and shall have paid all taxes which may have been required of him, and which he may have had an opportunity of paying, agreeably to law, for the year preceding the election (except as hereinafter provided), shall be deemed an elector; and every male citizen of the United States, of the age aforesaid (except as hereinafter provided), who may be a resident of the state at the time1 of the adoption of this constitution, shall be deemed an elector, and shall have all the rights of an elector as aforesaid; provided, that no soldier, sailor or marine in the military or naval service of the United States, shall acquire the rights of an elector by reason of being stationed on duty in this state; and no person shall vote who, if challenged, shall refuse to take the following oath :

"I do swear that I have not given or received, nor do I expect to give or receive, any money, treat, or other thing of value, by which my vote or any vote, is affected, or expected to be affected at this election, nor have I given, or promised any reward, or made any threat by which to prevent any person from voting at this election."

No person who, after the adoption of this constitution, being a resident of this state, shall engage in a duel in this state, or elsewhere, or shall send or accept a challenge, or be aider or abettor in such duel, shall vote or hold

1. Constitution adopted in 1868.

office in this state; and every such person shall also be subject to such punishment as the law may prescribe.

The general assembly may provide, from time to time, for the registration of all electors, but the following classes of persons shall not be permitted to register, vote or hold office: 1st. Those who shall have been convicted of treason, embezzlement of public funds, malfeasance in office, crime punishable by law with imprisonment in the penitentiary or bribery. 2d. Idiots or insane persons

KENTUCKY.

In Kentucky the constitution provides thatEvery free male citizen, of the age of twenty-one years, who has resided in the state two years, or in the county, town or city in which he offers to vote, one year next preceding the election, shall be a voter; but such voter shall have been, for sixty days next preceding the election, a resident of the precinct in which he offers to vote and he shall vote in said precinct, and not elsewhere. 1

Laws shall be made to exclude from office and from suffrage those who shall thereafter be convicted of brib

1. Foreigners who have resided in the state, county and precinct the length of time required by the constitution, are entitled to vote immediately upon being naturalized. It does not require a residence after the alien becomes a citizen, or after he attains the age of twenty-one, but only a previous residence next preceding the election, either before or after he acquires citizenship, or attains his majority. Morgan v. Dudley, 18 B. Monroe Kentucky Rep.,.724.

ery, perjury, forgery or other crimes or high misdemeanors. The privilege of free suffrage shall be supported by laws regulating elections, and prohibiting, under adequate penalties, all undue influence thereon from power, bribery, tumult or other improper practices. Absence on the business of this state, or the United States shall not forfeit a residence once obtained so as to deprive anyone of the right of suffrage, or of being elected or appointed to any office under this commonwealth under the exception contained in this constitution.

TENNESSEE.

The Tennessee constitution declares:

That elections shall be free and equal, and the right of suffrage as hereinafter declared, shall never be denied to any person entitled thereto, except upon a conviction by a jury of some infamous crime, previously ascertained and declared by law, and judgment thereon by court of competent jurisdiction.

Every male person of the age of twenty-one years, being a citizen of the United States and a resident of this state for twelve months, and of the county wherein he may offer his vote for six months next preceding the day of election, shall be entitled to vote for members of the general assembly, and other civil officers for the county or district in which he resides; and there shall be no qualification attached to the right of suffrage,

except that each voter shall give to the judges of election, where he offers to vote, satisfactory evidence that he has paid the poll taxes assessed against him for such preceding period as the legislature may prescribe and at such time as may be prescribed by law; without which hist vote cannot be received. And all male citizens of the state shall be subject to the payment of poll taxes, and the performance of military duty within such age as may be prescribed by law. The general assembly shall have power to enact laws requiring voters to vote in the election precinct in which they may reside, and laws to secure the freedom of elections and the purity of the ballot-box.

Laws may be passed excluding from the right of suffrage, persons who may be convicted of infamous crimes.

Any elector who shall receive any gift or reward for his vote, in meat, drink, money or otherwise, shall suffer such punishment as the laws shall direct.

LOUISIANA.

The suffrage clauses of the Louisiana constitution, adopted in 1868, are as follows:

Every male person of the age of twenty-one years or upwards, born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, and a resident of this state one year next preceding an election, and the last ten days in the parish in which he offers to vote, shall