...negro, mulatto, Indian, or person of mixed blood descended from negro or Indian ancestors, to the third generation inclusive, though one ancestor of each generation may have been a white person, whether bond or free, is incapable of being a witness in any cause, civil or criminal, except for or...

...1835, gave all freemen, twenty-one, holding a freehold of fifty acres, the ballot. "No free negro, free mulatto, or free person of mixed blood, descended...been a white person), shall vote for members of the senate or house of commons." South Carolina, l>y her constitution of 18G5, gave the ballot to free...

...state, knowingly marry a negro, or a person of mixed blood, descended from negro ancestry, to the third generation inclusive, though one ancestor of each generation may have been a white person, or having so married in or out of this state, shall continue within this state to cohabit with such...

...regarded as the proper rule in South Carolina.8 In North Carolina it is provided that "no free negro, free mulatto, or free person of mixed blood, descended...inclusive, (though one ancestor of each generation may have becn a white person,) shall vote for members of the senate or house of commons."9 In Tennessee " a...

...amount of color which will incapacitate is undetermined ; in North Carolina all are prohibited who are descended from negro ancestors to the fourth generation...ancestor of each generation may have been a white person (Pearson on Marriage, sect. 308). Suppose a woman domiciled in North Carolina, with such an amount...

...shall be entitled to vote for n member of the Sonnte" (subdivision 2). "No free пекго, Ггее mulatto, or free person of mixed blood, descended...been a white person), shall vote for members of the Senate or House of Commons" (subdivision 3). Under this provision, even after the Constitution of 1835,...

...That all Negroes, Indians, Mulattoes, and all Persons of mixed Blood, descended from Negro and Indian Ancestors, to the fourth Generation inclusive (though...Ancestor of each Generation may have been a white Person) whether Bond or free, shall be deemed and taken to be incapable in Law to be Witnesses in any Case...

...rnulattoes, Indians, and all persons of mixed blood descended from negro or Indian ancestors, to the third generation inclusive, though one ancestor of each generation may have been a white person, whether bond or free, must not be witnesses in any cause, civil or criminal, oxcept for or against...

...negro, mulatto, Indian, or person of mixed blood, descended from negro or Indian ancestors, to the third generation inclusive, though one ancestor of each generation may have been a white person, whether bond or free, is incapable of being a witness in any cause, civil or criminal, except for or...

...generation may have been a white person. Linton v. State, 88 Ala. 216. In North Carolina all who are descended from negro ancestors to the fourth generation,...though one ancestor of each generation may have been white, i Bish. on Mar. & Div., § 308; State v. Walters, 3 Ired. (N. Car.) 455; State v. Melton, Busb....