Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-04-28
| A PROCLAMATION,

q .ssasar2 Ia PROCLAMATION, s.ats'fa< ~ i
BIZ HIS Ercsuency DAVID S. REID, Governor Of tn
State of North Carolina. = la4sss4 81 rfHts-5
. WHEREAs three-fths of the whole number of menu
bers of each House of the General Assembly did at the
last session pass the following Act; = 75s 75fja /
AN ACT to amend the Constitution of North
81 Carolina.
g WTEREIs. The freehold qualification now required
for the electors members of the Senate conflicts with
the fundamental principles of liberty Therefore,
SIC. l.. Be 1t enacted By the General Assembly Of
the State Of North Carolina and it IS hereby enacted
6v the authority of the threcfths of the whole
number of members of each House concurng, that the
second clause of third section of the first Article of the
amended Constitution ratified by the people of North
Carolina the second Monday of November, A. D..
1885, be amended by striking the words and pos
sessed of freehold within the district of fifty acres
of land for months next before and at the day of cleo
tton so that the said clause of said section shall read
as follows: All free white of the age of twenty
years Except is hereinafter declared who have
been Inhabitants of any one district within the state
twelve months immediately preceding the day of any
election and shall have paid public taxes shall be entitled
to vote for member of the Senate.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted That the Governor
of the State be, and he is hereby directed to issue his
Proclamation the people of North Carolina at least
six months before the next election for members OF the
General Assembly, setting forth the purport OF this Act
and the amendment the Constitution herein proposed
which Proclamation shall be accompanied by true and
perfect copy of the Act authenticated by the certificate
of the Secretary of State both the Proclamation and
copy of this Act the Governor of the State shall
and posted in the Court Houses of the respective Coun-
ties in this State least six months before the election
of members to the next General Assembly. .e...
Read three times and agreed to by three-ths OF the
whole number of members of each House respectively,
and ratified in General Assembly this the oath day of
/ January, 1851. J G. DOBBIN, s. H. G.
| -. w. N. EDWARDS, ST.
STATE OF North CAROLINA, !
| . . Office of Secretary Of State.
l. WILLIAM HILL, Secretary of State IN and for the
State oNorth Carolina, do hereby certify that the TORE
going true and perfect copy of an Act of the Gen
eral Assembly of this State drawn off from the original
on file in this Office Given under my hand, this 3lst
day OF December, 1851.
WIN. HILL, Sec'y Of State.
| AND WHEREAS, the said Act provides for amending
the Constitution of the State of North Carolina
to confer every qualified voter for the House of Com
mons the right to vote also for the Senate;
Now therefore, the end that it may be made known
that the aforesaid amendment to the Constitution shall
he agreed by thirds of the whole representation
in each house of the next General Assembly, it will then
be submitted to the people for ratification have issued
this my Proclamation in conformity with the provision
of the before rected Act.
i In testimony whereof, DAVID S, REID, Governor o
the State of North Carolina hath hereunto set his hand
and caused the Great Seal of said State to be affixed
Iz$SSS4 Done at the City of Raleigh, the thirty
sSGMN&e first day of December, in the year of ou
3gANNE Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty
/ '|T5IT1 dence. ..
By the Governor, DAVID 3. REID.
! Thomas SETTLE, Jr. Private Sec'y
Persons into whose hands this Proclamation may fall
will please that copy of it is posted up in the Cour
House of their respective Counties.