What exactly is a poll tax? If someone had poll written behind their name in 1778 does that mean someone is paying poll tax on them or are they paying poll tax on someone? Thank you. Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Betty A. Pace" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 3:53 PM Subject: [RowanRoots] Early NC poll tax > For information: > > According to Helen Leary in her book NORTH > CAROLINA RESEARCH, p 232, free white males were > required to pay poll tax as follows: > > 1715: Age 16 and up (no age limit) > 1777-1784:Various requirements and exemptions. > 1784: Age 21 and up (no age limit) > 1801: Age 21-50 (inclusive) > 1817: Age 21-45 > 1868: Age 21-50 > > Betty Pace > > > ==== ROWANROOTS Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from RowanRoots-L send a message from the address you subscribed from to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. > >

Karen-- As a "victim" of unjust voting laws in TX back in 1960 at age 21, I was denied the privilege of voting in my "first" election due to the fact that my husband was in the Air Force and registered in the State of MD. I was in my last trimester of pregnancy with my 1st child and was unable to travel back there to register in MD and the State of TX said I couldn't vote because I didn't own property--i.e. land, house, etc. Poll taxes made it so only Rich White Males could vote. There were many other restrictions depending on which state you lived in. In other words, only the "educated elite" could vote. Ann Propst, Brevard, NC -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 11:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [RowanRoots] Early NC poll tax What exactly is a poll tax? If someone had poll written behind their name in 1778 does that mean someone is paying poll tax on them or are they paying poll tax on someone? Thank you. Karen