2. All free men of the age of twenty-one years (except as is hereinafter declared), who have been
inhabitants of any one district within the State twelve months immediately preceding the day of
any election, and possessed of a freehold within the same district of fifty acres of land, for six
months next before and at the day of election, shall be entitled to vote for a member of the senate.
[Ratified by voters November 9, 1835.]
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3. No free Negro, free mulatto, or free person of mixed blood, descended from Negro ancestors
to the fourth generation inclusive (though one ancestor of each generation may have been a white
person) shall vote for members of the senate or house of commons.
[Ratified by voters November 9, 1835.]
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