22 Constitution of the [Art. 1.

Soldiers vote.

Assembly shall also provide by law for taking the votes of

soldiers in the army of the United States serving in the
field.

Disqualifications.

Sec. 3. No person above the age of twenty-one years,
convicted of larceny or other infamous crime, unless par-
doned by the Governor, shall ever thereafter be entitled to
vote at any election in this State, and no lunatic, or person
non compos mentis, shall be entitled to vote.

Disqualifications
arising under the
Civil War.

Sec. 4. No person who has at any time been in armed
hostility to the United States, or the lawful authorities
thereof, or who has been in any manner in the service of
the so-called "Confederate States of America," and no
person who has voluntarily left this State and gone within
the military lines of the so-called "Confederate States or
armies" with the purpose of adhering to said States or
armies, and no person who has given any aid, comfort,
countenance or support to those engaged in armed hostility
to the United States, or in any manner adhered to the
enemies of the United States, either by contributing to the
enemies of the United States, or unlawfully sending within
the lines of such enemies money or goods, or letters, or
information, or who has disloyally held communication with
the enemies of the United States, or who has advised any
person to enter the service of the said enemies, or aided
any person so to enter, or who has by any open deed or
word declared his adhesion to the cause of the enemies of
the United States, or his desire for the triumph of said
enemies over the arms of the United States, shall ever be
entitled to vote at any election to be held in this State, or
to hold any office of honor, profit or trust under the laws
of this State, unless since such unlawful acts he shall have
voluntarily entered into the military service of the United
States, and been honorably discharged therefrom, or shall
be on the day of election, actually and voluntarily in such
service, or unless he shall be restored to his full rights
of citizenship by an act of the General Assembly passed
by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each
House; and it shall be the duty of all Officers of Regis-