Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-01-07
A PROCLAMATION,

A PROCLAMATION, ..-.
rrs Ercellency Dawn 5. RElD' "0reT7'OT % INC
&,,1tS of North CGroAna.
WaERanh House of the General Assembly did at the
bes o. ;on pass the following Act:
h' ,CT to amend the Constitution of North
CarOnn The freehold qualification now required
WHhHctors for members of the Senate conflicts with
b ornamental principles of liberty Ine[e,o'
be tan0 Be it enacted by the General Asse"'0'y o.
Sec = If North Carolina, and 1t IS HEREBY endeted
The S@ fhoritv of the threo-hths OF the whole
By inc members of each House concurIlnS' uat the
number of third section OF the hrst Article OF the
second nsttuon ratified by the people OF North
amended tho second Monday Of November, A. D.,
CaroDna ,ended by striking out the words " and pos
1852 freehold within the same district OF nifty acres
seed u civ months next before and at the day OF cleo
60 that the said clause Oh saio seclloh shaii reau
uOn', ~ :" All free white men OF the age OF twenty
a: follows cent as is hereinafter decarcd) who have
one yea N;,onts of any district within the State
been H'onths Immediately preceding the day OF any
Twelve and shall have paid public taxes shall be entitled
eRcuo fr member Of the senate
to vote iof d. - further enacted, That the Governor
SEC r. be and he is hereby directed, to issue his
Of the ;on to the people of North Carolina, at least
Proc'ah before the next election Tor members OF the
SIX Assembly setting forth the PurPort OF THIS ACT
Genera nament to the Constitution herein proposed,
and the Iaton shall be accompanied by true and
when f the Act authenticated by the certificate
IN secretary of State, and Oo'h Tue anu
o. 'ne If this Act the Governor OF the state shall
INC ~ he published in all the newspapers OF niS S'ae'
cause r. the Court Houses of the respective Coun-
and Posea ST. At least six months before the election
u nc bers TO. the next General Assembly.
OF meDI Io times and agreed to by three-fths of the
Neau nmber of members of each House respectively,
Who .;Gnd in General Assembly, this the oath day of
and ratiH1 1881. J C. DOBBIN, s. H. G.
January w. N. EDWARDS, s. S.
STATE OF NORTH CARoL1NA,
Office Of Secretary of State.
,w,,11.M HILL, Secretary of State, in and for the
IS North Carolina, do hereby certify that the fore
o i true and perfect copy of an Act of the Gen
s ssembIy of this State, drawn off from the original
ca fIc in this Office Given under my hand this 3lst
law of December, 1851.
O' WIN. HILL, Sec'y Of State.
Avn WHEnEAs the said Act provides for amending
tho Constitution of the State of North Carolina as
to confer on 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
10 agreed to by two thirds of the whole representation
in each house of the next General Assembly, it will then
be submitted the people for ratification have issued
This nv Proclamation in conformity with the provisions
of the before rcclte0 Act.
In testimony whereof, DAVID S. REID, Governor of
the State of North Carolina, hath hercunto set his hand
and caused the Great Seal of said State to be affixed
~. Done at the City of Raleigh, the thirty
SfNER first day of December, in the year of our
sYIMfS Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty
%SesSS one, and in the 10Th year of our IndePen-
'ISTS' dence.
By the Governor, DAVID .. RElD.
Thomas SETTLE, Jr. Prisate Sec'y.
Persons into whose hands this Proclamation may fall,
will please see that copy of it is posted up in the Court
House of their respective Counties.
o. All the newspapers in the State will publish the
above not oftener than week till the next August
election