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The Convention considers Propositions Number 98 to 103, which are read the first time and referred to the Committee on Printing. Propositions Number 1 and 5 are referred to the Committee of the Whole and then returned from that Committee. The Convention adopts Proposition Number 1 as amended and refers it to the Committee on Style. Propositions Number 40, 41, 43, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 57 to 61, 63 to 68, and 77 are read a second time.
A PROPOSITION
No. 51.
A Proposition Relative to the Qualifications of Voters.
Introduced by Mr. Ellinwood.
It is hereby proposed:
Section 1. No person shall have the right to vote or be eligible to office under the Constitution of this State, who shall not be able to read the Constitution in the English language and write his name; provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to any person prevented by a physical disability from complying with its requisitions, nor to any person who shall have the right to vote at the first election for State officers, nor to any person who shall be sixty years of age or upwards at the time this section takes effect.