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Wheeling Register
January 11, 1905


Alternative Proposition, Providing for Female Suffrage.

Section 4a. Every female who has arrived at the age of twenty-one (21) years who shall have been a resident of said city for at least one year preceding the election, or who at the time of the election shall be a resident of the state of West Virginia and the bona fide owner of any free-hold estate within said city of the assessed value of at least two hundred dollars ($200.00), shall be entitled to vote at elections for corporate authorities, and on questions authorized by law to be determined by popular vote. Provided, always, that no person, although in other respects duly qualified, shall be entitled to vote at any such election, if she shall have failed to pay any taxes whatever, lawfully assessed or levied upon her for the benefit of said city during the year preceding the election, and that every such voter against whom any such taxes have been assessed or levied as aforesaid when offering to vote be required to exhibit a receipt for all taxes due the city. Provided. That a voter just coming of age and who was not subject to taxation at the time of the last assessment shall be exempt from the requirement of producing her tax receipt. And provided further, that no person legally entitled to vote shall be permitted to vote at any other place than the precinct in which her residence is situated and may not vote at any other precinct in which she may own property, unless she be a non-resident property holder, in which event she may vote in any one precinct of the city in which she owns property.


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