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Page 109 - Every white* male citizen of the United States, who shall have attained the age of twenty-one years...
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Page 111 - ... have been born or naturalized in the United States, and who shall have resided in the said District for the period of one year, and three months in the ward or election precinct in which he shall offer to vote next preceding any election therein, shall be entitled to the elective franchise, and shall be deemed an elector and entitled to vote at any election in said District, without any distinction on account of color or race.
Page 107 - ... state above the value of thirty pounds current money, and having resided in the county, in which they offer to vote, one whole year next preceding the election, shall have a right of suffrage, in the election of Delegates for such county...
Page 200 - Orleans, where he stayed a year and then went to Charleston, SC Here he learned the stucco business, which he followed until 1835, when he discovered a new method of taking a cast from the living face, which enabled him to make busts so cheaply that he soon had as much work as he could do. He then resolved...
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| Title | Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C., Volume 24 |
| Author | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) |
| Publisher | The Society, 1922 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Aug 8, 2007 |
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