Constitution of 1857. whites only were voters. and the constitution. while it prohibited slavery also prohibited free negroes from coming to the State or holding real estate there. or making any contracts within the State. or maintaining any suit in its courts. and the legislature was required to pass laws to carry out this provision. This constitution was unchanged in 1872. and probably it is so at this time. By the revised statutes of Nebraska of 1866 negroes were not allowed to vote. but naturalized whites. foreigners who had merely declared their intentions to become citizens. were allowed to vote. * * * Marriages were made void when one party is white and the other had onefourth or more of negro blood. The statute on common schools declared that for the purpose of affording a free education "to all white youths" a school tax should be levied on whites only. This provision was not changed till 1869.
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