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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Leaflet : Instructions for women watchers. November, 1915]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Elections -- New York (State) -- New York -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.<br />
Elections<br />
Honest Ballot Association<br />
New York (State) -- New York<br />
Woman Suffrage Party of New York City<br />
Women election officials]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Instructions for poll-watchers by George Kessler, Secretary of the Honest Ballot Association, New York City, to help curb illegal corruption or maneuvers to change the results of the election. The booklet reviews the rights of watchers, the ways in which improper voting or improper tallies may occur and how watchers can lodge protests. <br />
<br />
Members of the Honest Ballot Association taught classes to women who served as poll-watchers leading up to the New York elections.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Kessler, George W.<br />
Honest Ballot Association<br />
Woman Suffrage Party of New York City]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[[New York, N.Y. : Honest Ballot Association]]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[[1915]]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[14 p.]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[DOCU.1915.35]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://lewissuffragecollection.omeka.net/items/show/1216">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Pamphlet : Taxation of women in Massachusetts by William Bowditch. 1875]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States<br />
Taxation--Massachusetts<br />
Voting and Voting Rights<br />
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--Massachusetts]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[William Bowditch was a conveyancer, a lawyer specializing in buying and selling property, in Boston. He lived in Brookline, Massachusetts and served as a selectman and moderator of Town Meetings for a number of years. He was a well-known abolitionist who used his house to shelter fugitive slaves. <br />
Bowditch was also a supporter of women&#039;s rights. In this article, he reviews taxation laws in Massachusetts and their impact on women, and points to the injustice of taxing women without enfranchising them.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Bowditch, William I. (William Ingersoll), 1819-1909]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Cambridge, Mass. : J. Wilson and Son]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1875]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[71 p. incl. tables]]></dcterms:format>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[DOCU.1875.01]]></dcterms:identifier>
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