OF

THE STATE OF TENNESSEE,

PASSED BY THE

THIRTY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

1873.

STANFORD LIBRARY

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

NASHVILLE:

JONES, PURVIS & CO., PRINTERS TO THE STATE.

1873.

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General Assembly of the State of Tennessee,

PASSED BY THE FIRST SESSION OF THE

THIRTY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

WHICH WAS BEGUN AND HELD AT NASHVILLE ON THE

FIRST MONDAY IN JANUARY, IN THE YEAR

OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT

HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-THREE.

CHAPTER I.

AN ACT to Repeal so much of Sec. 1, of an Act entitled "An Act

to Regulate the Elective Franchise, in accordance with Article

4, Section 1, of the Constitution of the State," as requires the

payment of a Poll Tax to entitle a voter to vote.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

the State of Tennessee, That so much of Section 1, of an Section 1 of Ac
of June 11, 1870,
Aet passed June 11th, 1870, entitled "An Act to Regulate repealed.

the Elective Franchise in accordance with Article 4, Sec-

tion 1, of the Constitution of the State," as requires that

each voter shall give the Judges of Election, when and

where he offers his vote, satisfactory evidence that he has

paid the poll taxes assessed against him, for the year pre-

ceding the election," be and the same is hereby re-

pealed.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this Act take effect

from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.

Passed January 16, 1873.

W. S. MCGAUGHEY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

A. T. LACEY,

Speaker of the Senate.

Approved January 17th, 1873.

JOHN C. BROWN,

Governor.