A Source Book in American History to 1787

Act VII [Suffrage.

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=_Bee it enacted_= ... that the act of assembly [1770; see No. 105]... which forbids =_freemen_= to have votes in the election of burgesses be repealed, and that they be admitted, together with freeholders and householders, to vote as formerly in such elections.