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Original Date	1808
Title	1808 Suffrage Act
Full Title	An Act extending the right of suffrage in the Indiana Territory
Congress and session when document passed	10th Congress, 1st session
Description	Under the provisions of the Ordinance of 1787 a voter was required to be a free white male of twenty-one years or more, a resident of the district, and the owner of fifty acres of land in the district. The desire for a more liberal suffrage was apparent at an early date in Indiana Territory. Numerous petitions were submitted. In 1808 the Tenth Congress made a small but significant concession by extending the suffrage to those holding town lots with a minimum value of $100.00. 1 1 The Laws of the United States of America: Acts Passed at the First Session of the Tenth Congress of the United States (Washington, 1809), IX, 54-55; U.S. Statues at Large, II, 469, cf. 525; Annals of Congress, 10 Cong., 1 Sess., 2834; Carter (ed.), Territorial Papers, VII, 526. For an excellent discussion of the democratic movement see John D. Barnhart, Valley of Democracy: The Frontier Versus the Plantation in the Ohio Valley, 1775-1818 (Bloomington, Indiana, 1953), 161-177.
Date document signed	February 26, 1808
Document signed by	Thomas Jefferson
Size of Document (Length and Width)	29.5 in. x 25 in.
Number of Pages	1
Original Format	4 in. x 5 in. transparency
Credit	Courtesy of National Archives
Document identifier/call number	RG 11
Digital Date	2005
Original Repository	National Archives and Records Administration
Digital Publisher	IUPUI University Library
Format and Resolution	Full View: 2400 dpi jpg 2000 ; Archived: 2400 dpi tiff
Scanner	hp scanjet 7400c
Usage Statement	Permission granted for all nonprofit-making uses. For other use or high resolution image, contact Indiana Historical Bureau at 317-232-2535.
Digital Collection	Road to Indiana Statehood http://indiamond6.ulib.iupui.edu/isc/

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Description	Part of 1808 Suffrage Act
Digital Collection	Road to Indiana Statehood http://indiamond6.ulib.iupui.edu/isc/
Transcript	The Suffrage Act - 1808 AN ACT Extending the right of suffrage in the Indiana Territory. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That every free white male person in the Indiana territory, above the age of twenty-one years, having been a citizen of the United States, and resident in the said territory, one year next preceding an election of representatives, and who has a legal or equitable title to a tract of land of the quantity of fifty acres, or who may become the purchaser from the United States of a tract of land of the quantity of fifty acres, or who holds in his own right a town lot of the value of one hundred dollars, shall be entitled to vote for the representatives to the general assembly of the said territory. J. B. VARNUM Speaker of the House of Representatives. GEO. CLINTON Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.

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