Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-04-14
PROCLAMATION.


Bv His Ercenency DAVID o. HElD' OoreF"" % &"
State of North Carolina.
WrrRgAs three-ffths of the whole number of MEM
br Of each House of the General Assembly did at the
last session pass the following Act:
AN ACT to amend the Constitution of North
WHEREAS The freehold qualification now required
Cor the electors for members of the Senate conflicts with
the fundamental principles of liberty; Therefore,
SEC l. Be it enacted By the General Assembly of
the State of North Carolina and it IS hereby enacted
bv the authority Of the threc-ffths of the whole
number of members of each House concurrng that the
sacond 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.,
1855, be amended by striking out the words " and pos
sessed of freehold within the district of fifty
of land for months next before and at the day of elec
tton that the said clause of said section shall read
as follows: All free white men of the age of twenty
one wears Except is hereinafter declared who have
been inhabitants of any 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 a 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 te the people of North Carolina at least
six months before the next election for members of the
General Assembly, setting forth the purport of s 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 and both the Proclamation and
the copy of this Act the Governor of the State shall
cause to be published in all the newspapers of this State
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
Read three times and agreed to by threefths of the
whole number of members of each House respectively,
and ratified in General Assembly, this the Oath day of
January, 1851. U. DO6bIN, .. II. y.
w. N. EDWARDS, s. S.
SrArE sF NORTH CARoL1NA,
Office of Secretary Of State.
Hin % he
going is true and perfect copy of Act of the Gen.
cra Assembly this State, drawn off from the original
on file in this Office. Given under my hand, this 81 st
day OF December, 1851.
VIM. HILL, Secy Of State.
AND WHEREAS, the said Act provides for amending
the Constitution of the State of North Carolina as
confer every qualified for the House of Com
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, will then
he submitted to the people for ratification, have issued
this my Proclamation in conformity with the provisions
of the before recited Act.
In testimony Whereof DAVID S. REID, Governor of
the State of North Carolina hath hercunto his hand
and caused the Great Seal of said State be affixed
sISsSe, Done at the City of Raleigh, on the thirty
:sANNE. first day of December, in the year of our
:SsNSs Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty
'SH' dence.
By the Governor, DAVID s. REID.
Thomas SETTLE, Jr. Priuate Sec'y.
Persons into whose hands this Proclamation may fall
will please that copy of posted up in the Court
House of their respective Counties.