The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, 1856-06-28
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by HIS EXCELLENCE THOMAS BRAGG
}aovEHNos OF THE STATE OF NORTH
IrEEs gr1 urS :ss 7;1Ssctr rne last cll-
eral Assembly of this State, by vote OF three
ffths of all the members thereof, 4 duly ccrti-
fed copy Of which is as follows:
AN ACT to amend the Constitution of the
State of North Carolina.
WuERAs, A large number Of the people are
dsffanchised by the freehold qualification now
required of voters for members of the Senate
Therefore,
SEC. 1. Be 1t enacted by The General As~mJly
of the Stale Of Nor1h Carolina, and II Is hereby
enacted By Tie aufhority Of the same (three-ffths
of the whole number of members of each House
concnrrng,) That the I'd clause of the lst sec
tion of the st article of the amended Constitu-
ton, ratified by the people of North Carolina
on the second Monday in November, in the
year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty
FIVE, shall be amended to read as follows:
Every free white man of the age of twenty-o
wears being a native ma turaliZed citizen Of
the United States and who has been an in
=habltant of the State for twelve months inme
diatcly preceding the day of any election, and
shall have paid public taxes, shall be entitled
to vote for member Of the Senate for the
district in which he resides
SEC 2. BE IT further enacted. That the Gov
ernor of the State be- and he is hereby directed
to issue his proclamation to the people of
North Carolina, at least six months before the
next election for members Of the General AS
semblv setting forth the purport of this act
and the amendment to the Constitution herein
proposed, which proclamation shall be accom-
panied 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 to be published in ten newspapers
II: c,x ft,rI Iafx,.
election Of members to the General Assembly.
Read three times and ratified in General
Assembly this Sd day of February, 1855.
SAM'L p. HILL,
Speaker of'tAc Komsc Of Commous
WARREN WINSLOW,
Speaker of the Senate
State of North Carolina,
Office of the Secretary of State
I, William Hill, Secretary Of State, in and
for the State Of North Carolina do hereby
certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the
original as ratified aud on file in this Office.
Given under my hand this oath day of Jann-
ary, 1856.
w. HILL, Secretary Of State
Now therefore, in conformity to the Consti-
tuition of the State, and the requirements OF
the aforesaid act, | do issue this my Proclama-
ton, making known to the people of North
Carolina the provisions of said act and the
amendment thereby proposed to be made to
the Constitution of the State, and do cause the
same to be published in ten newspapers OF this
State six months before the election Of mem
bers Of the next General Assembly.
III testimony whereof |, Thomas Bragg
Governor of the State of North Caro-
) lima, have hereto set my hand and
r e. 81 caused the great seal of the State to
be hereto affixed. Done at the City of
Raleigh, this the oath day of January,
A. D., 1856. and in the 9Oth year OF
Independence.
THOS. BRAGG
By the Governor:
PuLasKI CoHPEE
Pirate Sscretary
Raleigh, Jannary 24, 1855. S3-6m