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22 CONSTITUTION OF THE [ART. 1.
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Assembly shall also provide by law for taking the votes of
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Soldiers vote.
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soldiers in the army of the United States serving in the
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Held.
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Disqualifications.
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SEC. 3 No person above the age of twenty-one years,
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convicted of larceny or other infamous crime, unless par-
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doned by the Governor, shall ever thereafter be entitled to
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vote at any election in this State, and no lunatic, or persoft
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non compos mentis, shall be entitled to vote.
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Disqualifications
arising under the
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SEC. 4. No person who has at any time been in armed
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Civil War.
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hostility to the United States, or the lawful authorities
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thereof, or who has been in any manner in the service of
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the so-called " Confederate States of America," and no
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person who has voluntarily left this State and gone within
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the military lines of the so-called " Confederate States or
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armies" with the purpose of adhering to said States or
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armies, and no person who has given any aid, comfort,
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countenance or support to those engaged in armed hostility
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to the United States, or in any manner adhered to the
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enemies of the United States, either by contributing to the
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enemies of the United States, or unlawfully sending within
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the lines of such enemies money or goods, or letters, or
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information, or who has disloyally held communication with
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the enemies of the United States, or who has advised any
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person to enter the service of the said enemies, or aided
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any person so to enter, or who has by any open deed or
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word declared his adhesion to the cause of the enemies of
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the United States, or his desire for the triumph of said
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enemies over the arms of the United States, shall ever be
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entitled to vote at any election to be held in this State, or
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to hold any office of honor, profit or trust under the laws
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of this State, unless since such unlawful acts he shall have
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voluntarily entered into the military service of the United
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States, and been honorably discharged therefrom, or shall
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be on the day of election, actually and voluntarily in such
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service, or unless he shall be restored to his full rights
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of citizenship by an act of the General Assembly passed
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by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each
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House; and it shall be the duty of all Officers of Regis-
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