g resided in the State two years next
before the election, and within that time paid a State or
county tax which shall have been assessed at least six
months before the election"; in Delaware and Virginia, "as
exercised by law at present"; in Maryland, "all freeman
above twenty-one years of age, having a freehold of fifty
acres of land in the county in which they offer to vote and
residing therein, and all freemen having property in the
State above the value of thirty pounds current money, and
having resided in the county in which they offer to vote one
whole year next preceding the election"; in North Carolina,
for Senators, "all freemen of the age of twenty-one years,
who have been inhabitants of any one county within the State
twelve months immediately preceding the day of election, and
possessed of a freehold within the same county of fifty
acres of land for six months next before and at the day of
election," and for members of the House of Commons, "all
freemen of the age of twenty-one years, who have been
inhabitants in any one county within the State twelve months
immediately preceding the day of any election, and shall
have paid public taxes"; in South Carolina, "every free
white man of the age of twenty-one years, being a citizen of
the State, and having resided therein two years previous to
the day of election, and who hath a freehold of fifty acres
of land, or a town lot of which he hath been legally seized
and possessed at least six months before such election, or
(not having such freehold or town lot), hath been a resident
within the election district in which he offers to give his
vote six months before said election, and hath paid a tax
the preceding year of three shillings sterling toward the
support of the Government"; and, in Georgia, such "citizens
and inhabitants of the State as shall have attained to the
age of twenty-one years, and shall have paid tax for the
year next preceding the election, and shall have resided six
months within the county."

In this condition of the law in respect to suffrage in the
several States, it can not for a moment be doubted