Fenlon asks that McMaster write an article concerning the legal effect of the 15th amendment in states where negroes had not the right to vote by virtue of state laws. Fenlon thinks that most citizens take for granted that the 15th amendment confers the right to vote on all citizens, but what he wishes to know is if the amendment merely prevents the states where the right to vote exists from denying or abridging such right, or does not the amendment merely act as a prohibition upon the states from the exercise of legislative powers theretofore possessed by them, and not as conferring any right upon the citizen. He believes that he may be wrong in his assumptions, and if so, wishes McMaster to set him on the right course. :: I-1-n A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo.