Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-05-26
A PROCLAMATION,

BIZ His Ercellency DAVID S. REID, Governor Of tn
State of North Carolina. ~
WHEREAs, three-ffths of the whole number OF menu
bes OF each House of the General Assembly did at the
last session pass the following Act
AN ACT to amend the Constitution of North
Carolina.
WHEREAS, The freehold qualification now required
for the electors for members of the Senate conflicts with
the fundamental principles of liberty; Therefore,
Sec. 1. Be 1t enacted BIZ the General Assembly of
the State Of North Carolina, dad Is hereby enacted
by the authority of the threeffths of the whole
number of members of each House concurng, that the
second clause 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 out the words " and pos
sessed of freehold within the district of fifty acres
of land for six months next before the day of cleo
on that the said clause of said section shall read
follows: All free white men of the age of twenty
one years (except is hereinafter decared 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 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 to the people of North Carolina at least
months before the next election for members OF the
General Assembly, setting forth the purort OF this Act
and the amendment to 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
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
January, 1851. G. DOBB1N, S. H. G.
w. N. EDWARDS, s. s.
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
Office of Secretary Of State.
I, WILLIAM HILL, Secretary of State, in and for thu
State ofNorth Carolina do hereby certify that the fore
going is true and perfect copy of Act of the Gen
eral Assembly of this State drawn off from the orgna
day OF December, 1851.
WIN. HILL, Sec'y of State.
| AND WHEnEAs, 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, to the end that it be made know
that if the aforesaid amendment to the Constitution shall
be agreed to by thirds of the whole representation
in each house of the General Assembly, will theI
be submitted to the people for ratification, have ISSUED
this Proclamation in conformity with the provision
of the before rected Act.
In testimony Whereof DAVID S. REID, Governor o
the State of North Carolina hath hereuno his han
and caused the Great Seal of said State to be affixed
Done at the City of Raleigh, the thirty
! SA&WN&S first day of December, in the year of ou
S$SMNS: Lord thousand eight hundred and fifty
| :$ASc' one and in the 18th year of our Indepen
| By the Governor, DAVID s. REID.
Thomas SETTLE, Jr Private Sec,y.
Persons into whose hands this Proclamation may fall
will please that copy of is posted up in the Cour
House of their respective Counties.