The North-Carolinian., 1856-08-09
4 PROCLAMATION.


BY HIS ExcELLENcY THOMAS BRAGG.
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NORTH
CAROLINA.
WHERAs, an act was passed by the last Gen
eral Assembly of this State, by a vote of three
ffths of all the members thereof, duly certi-
fed copy Of which is as follows:
AN ACT to amend the Constitution Of the
State of North Carolina. =
WHEREAS, A large number of the people are
disfranchised by the freehold qualification now
required of voters for members of the Senate,
Therefore,
SEC l. Be 1t ennclrd by the General assembly
of the .State of Norh Ccfolina, and ii is hereby
enacted By The nuthority Of the same. (three-ffths
of the whole number of members of each House
concurrng) That the I'd clause of the lst sec
tion of the 1st article of the amended Constitu-
ton, ratified by the people of North Carolina
the second Monday in November, in the
year of Lord eighteen hundred and thirty
FIVE, shall he amended to read follows:
Every free white man Of the age of twenty one
years being native naturalized citizen Of
the United States, and who has been in
hab,tant Of the State for twelve months imme-
diately preceding the day of any election, and
shall have paid pnhlic taxes, shall he entitled
to vote for member OF the Senate for the
district in which he resides.
SEC. 2. BE II further enacted. That the Gov
to issue his proclamation to the people of
North Carolina, at least six months before the
next election for members Of the General AS
sembly, setting forth the purport of this act
and the amendment to the Constitution herein
proposed which proclamation shall be accom-
panied by trne and perfect copy of the act
authenticated by the certificate Of the Secretary
of State, and both the proclamation and the
copv of this act the Governor of the State
shall cause to be published in ten newspapers
Of this State, at least six months before the
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 the House of Commas
WARREN WINSLOW,
Spe0ker Of tile 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 true copy of the
original as ratified aud on file in this Office
Given under my hand this oath day of Janu-
airy, 1856.
w. HILL, Secretary Of State.
Now, therefore, in conformity to the Const-
tuition of the State, and the requirements of
the aforesaid act, | do issue this my Proclama-
tion, making known to the people O. 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 men,
bers of the next General Assembly.
In testimony whereof l. Thomas Bragg,
Governor of the State of North Caro-
lima. have hereto set my hand and
u. S. ] caused the great seal OF the State to
be hereto affixed. Done ut the City OF
Raleigh, this the Gath day OF January:
A. D., 1856, and in the -SOth year OF
our Independence.
By the Governor:
Pulaski CowPER,
Pirate Secretary.
Raleigh, January p, 1896 oo-o'H
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