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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 226 (part 5)

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[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The old property qualification for the suffrage was practically abolished in 1821. For the purpose of representation in the State senate. Westchester Comity was from 1777 to 1815 associated with New York, Kings, Queens, Suffolk, and Richmond, in the so-called Southern district. From 1815 to 1821 the Comities of Dutchess, Putnam, and Rockland were added to the district, whose name was changed to the 1st. From