A short history of Rhode IslandGreene, George Washington
History
A short history of Rhode Island
Greene, George Washington
Rhode Island -- History
From and after that time, every such citizen, who has had the residence
herein required, and whose name shall be registered in the town where
he resides, on or before the last day of December, in the year next
preceding the time of his voting, and who shall show by legal proof,
that he has for and within the year next preceding the time he shall
offer to vote, paid a tax or taxes assessed against him in any town or
city in this state, to the amount of one dollar; or that he has been
enrolled in a military company in this state, been equipped and done
duty therein, according to law, and at least for one day during such
year, shall have a right to vote in the election of all civil officers,
and on all questions in all legally organized town or ward meetings:
Provided, that no person shall at any time be allowed to vote in the
election of the City Council of the City of Providence, or upon any
proposition to impose a tax, or for the expenditure of money in any
town or city, unless he shall, within the year next preceding have
paid a tax assessed upon his property therein, valued at least at one
hundred and thirty-four dollars.
SEC. 3. The assessors of each town or city shall annually assess upon
every person whose name shall be registered, a tax of one dollar, or
such sum as with his other taxes shall amount to one dollar, which
registry tax shall be paid into the treasury of such town or city, and
be applied to the support of public schools therein: but no compulsory
process shall issue for the collection of any registry tax: Provided
that the registry tax of every person who has performed military duty
according to the provisions of the preceding section, shall be remitted
for the year he shall perform such duty; and the registry tax assessed
upon any mariner, for any year while he is at sea, shall, upon his
application, be remitted; and no person shall be allowed to vote whose
registry tax for either of the two years next preceding the time of
voting is not paid or remitted as herein provided.
SEC. 4. No person in the military, naval, marine, or any other service
of the United States, shall be considered as having the required
residence by reason of being employed in any garrison, barrack, or
military or naval station in this state: and no pauper, lunatic,
person _non compos mentis_, person under guardianship, or member of
the Narragansett tribe of Indians, shall be permitted to be registered
or to vote. Nor shall any person convicted of bribery, or of any crime
deemed infamous at common law, be permitted to exercise that privilege,
until he be expressly restored thereto by act of the General Assembly.
SEC. 5. Persons residing on lands ceded by this state to the United
States shall not be entitled to exercise the privilege of electors.
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