Act of July 13th, 1787. Act of Jan. 9, 1808. A person to vote hereunder must be A person to vote hereunder must be (1) Free, (1) Free, (2) Male, (2) Male, (3) Of the age of twenty-one years. (3) Of the age of twenty-one years. (4) A citizen of the United States (4) A citizen of the United and a resident of the Territory, States and resident of the territory or a resident for two years in one year next preceding an the Territory, and election at which he offers to vote, (5) A freeholder of fifty acres of (5) The holder of a legal or land in the district. equitable title to a tract of land, by virtue of any act of Congress, or who may become the purchaser of any tract of land from the United States of the quantity of fifty acres, or who may own a town lot of the value of one hundred dollars within the territory and (6) White. This act of Congress, passed in 1808, first introduced the color line. In 1811 four municipalities were organized by acts of the territorial legislature, Woodville, Port Gibson, Huntsville and St. Stevens; the latter two are now in Alabama. In the first one named the right to vote was conferred on the freeholders and householders within the town, and in the second the right was conferred on the landowners, freeholders and householders within said town, but in each case the grant was followed by a separate section of the act in these words: "All free male inhabitants, subject to taxation, who shall be in the occupancy of a room or rooms separate and apart to himself, shall be deemed a householder, within the meaning of this act, and shall be entitled to vote at the town elections." Clearly this section was intended to enlarge the scope of those who were authorized to vote and it could not rightfully be construed as narrowing it.