Article III.
Qualification of Voters

Section 2.

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The general assembly, as occasion may require, shall cause every city or town, the white population of which exceeds five thousand, to be laid off into convenient wards, and a separate place of voting to be established in each; and thereafter, no inhabitant of such city or town shall be allowed to vote except in the ward in which he resides.

The General Assembly, as occasion may require, shall cause every city or town, the white population of which exceeds five thou­sand, to be laid off into convenient wards, and a separate place of voting to be established in each; and thereafter no inhabitants of such city or town shall be allowed to vote except in the ward in which he resides.

The general assembly, at its first session after the adoption of this constitution, and afterwards as occasion may require, shall cause every city or town, the white population of which exceeds five thousand, to be laid off into convenient wards, and a separate place of voting to be established in each; and thereafter no inhabitant of such city or town shall be allowed to vote except in the ward in which he resides.

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