Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-02-15

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who shall not have attained the age of twenty five
years, and been domicled in the State three wears
andin the district forwhieh he shall be chosen one
year next before his election and who shall not for
one year, have POSSESSED and continue to possess a
freehold estate in said district Of the value of one
thousand dollars. sgess -
:, g. No person shall be member of the House of
Representatives who shall not have attained the age
of <twenty-one years. and shall not have domicled
in the State two years. and in the county for which
ne snaii De chosen, one year next before his cleo
toR and shall not for one year, have possessed and
continue 20 possess freehold estate in said county
OF the value of five hundred dollars.
y. No person shall be eligible as a member of
either Holse OF the General Assembly who shall
not be entitled to the right of suffrage
10. No officer Of the regular army or navy in the
service and pay of the Confederate States or of this
or any other State any contractor for supplying
such army or navy shall be eligible to seat in the
Senate or House of Representatives and any men,
Der being appointed to or accepting such office or
contract, shall thereby yacate his seat.
No person who shall have been TREASURED of
the State nor any persons who shall have been re-
celyers OF public monies in the past or future, by
colection-or Tor disbursement asha be eligible to
seat IN the Senate or House of Representatives or
TO any office in the State, until he shall have fully
accounted for and paid into the Treasury all monies
que from or held by him belonging to the Public
Treasury. E
IL. No clergyman or preacher of the gospel of
any denomination shall be eligible to seat in the
Senate or House of Representatives while he con-
tInues IN the exercise of the pastoral function.
Is. No person who shall bold any Office under
the Confederate States or under this or any other
State or Government shall be eligible to a scat in
the Senate or House of Representatives or shall hold
or exercise any other Office under the authority of
this State and the acceptance of any of the Offices
aforesaid D. any officer or member of the General
Assembly oil this State shall vacae his office or seat
f'r0Uaded, That nothing herein Contained shall ex-
tend to officers in the Militia or Justices of the
Peace -.
IA. No President Cashier or Treasurer of any
corporation in which the State shall be stockhold-
er shall be eligible to seat in the Senate or House
of Representatives. - -
SECTION 2.
/. The Senate, when assembled, shall have power
to choose President to preside its deliberations
and the House of Representatives when assembled,
shall have power TO choose Speaker, and each of
said houses shall choose all its other officers except
such as it may direct to be appointed by its presid
ing officer or clerk. -.
2 a majority of each house shall constitute
quorum to do business, but smaller number may
adjourn from day to day. and compel the attendance
OF absent members in such manner as is or may be
provided by law, or the rules of each house Each
house may sit upon its own adjournments, judge of
the qualifications elections and returns of its mem
bers, but contested elections shall be determined in
such manner shall be directed by law.
3. Each house may determine the rules of its pro-
ceedngs punish members for disorderly behavior
and with the concurrence Of twothirdS, expel
member.
4. Each House shall keep journal of its pro-
ceedings and from time to time publish the same
and the yeas and nays Of the members of either
House SHALL at the desire of one-tifth of the
bers present, be entered on the journal. And any
member Of either House shall have liberty to dis
sent from and protest against any act or resolution
which he may think injurious to the public or any
individual and to have the reasons of his dissent
entered on the journal.
g. Neither House, during the session of the Gen.
eral Assembly shall, without the consent of the
other, adjourn for more than three days. or to any
other place than that ii which the two Houses may
be sitting.
g. Each House may issue writs of election for
supplying vacancies of its members occurring and
becoming known to it during its session, and all
other vacancies may be supplied upon wrjts issued
by the Governor, under such regulations are or
may be prescribed by law.
T. The members of the Senate and House of Rep
rcSentatives SHALL in all cases. except treason felony,
and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest
during their attendance at the session of their re-
spect!ve houses, and going to and returning from
the same, and for any speech or debate, in either
8. All bills shall he read three times In each
House before they pass into laws and be signed by
the presiding officers of both Houses.
9. In the election of all officers, the power of
whose appointment is conferred in the General As
Senbly by this Constitution the vote shall be .ritl
r0c In all elections by the people, the vote shall
be 10y ballot.
10. Every member of tic Senate and House of
Representatives, before taking his seat, and every
person appointed to any office 10 the State before
entering upon the eXecuGoRof his office, shall take
an oath of allegiance to the State, and all officers
shall also take oath Gf office
sRCTIoN 8.
I. The General Assembly shall have power to
pass laws, to regulate the militia, and the moie of
appointing and REMOVING militia officers. To regu-
late divorce and alpony generally, but not to grant
a divorce secure aluony in any individual case.
To provide by general laws for the alteration of the
OF any person, the legitimaton of persons not
born in lawful wedock and to restore to the rights
OF citizenship persons convicted of infamous crimes,
but shall pass private law for any of the purposes
Aforesaid.
2. The General Assembly shall not pass any pTi-
vote law, unless it shall be made to appear that
thirty days notice Of the application to pass such
law, shall have been given under such directions
and in such manner as shall be provided by law.
3. The General Assembly shall pass no act ap-
propriating public monies, exceeding the sum of
five hundred dollars, except by the vote of major
ity Of the whole number of members of each House.
4. The General Assembly shall pass no law au-
thorizing debt or debts to be contracted by which
the whole public debt of the State, including that
created before the first day of March last shall be
made to>exceed twenty millions of dollars of princl
pal money: Provided, That no debt authorized and
incurred in the existing war between the Confeder-