8209. SUFFRAGE, Property qualification.—[continued].
All free male citizens, of
full age and sane mind, who for one year
before shall have been resident in the county,
or shall through the whole of that time have
possessed therein real property to the value
of—, or shall for the same time have been
enrolled in the militia, and no others, shall
have a right to vote for delegates for the
* * * county, and for senatorial electors
for the district. They shall give their votes
personally, and
vivâ voce.—
Proposed Va. Constitution. Washington ed. viii, 444.
Ford ed., iii, 323.
(1783)
