Wilbur F. Booth, a student in Yale College, recently appeared before the board of selectmen in New Haven, to be made a voter. He was twenty-one years of age last August, and has been in college two years. His parents reside in Easton, in that State, and the young man has earned his living since he has been in college. He argued his case before the board, and did not succeed in obtaining from them any reason satisfactory to him why he should not be made a voter. But the board held that students in an institution of learning were not entitled to the privileges of an elector. [Evening Post.
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