The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1865-10-17
N. c. STATE CONVENTION.
Seventh Ddv.

ham; jackson, Randolph; Winston, Franklin
! Rumey, Carteret; RUSSELL Brunswick; Allen
Duplin; Logan, Rutherford; Dickey, Cherokee
Patterson, Caldwell; Mcdonald, Chatham; and
Ferebee, Camden.
! Judge Gillian from the committee on General
Amnesty reported as follows:
Resolution upon the subject Of a total Amnesty
to the People Of North Carolina.
ResolUed, That under the strong Impressions
which it has conceived of the Kindness and wis
dom displayed by His Excellency, President
Johnson in composing the troubles that have
arisen out of the recent rebellion, this Conven
tion ventures to express hope, that if not in
compatible with the views which his Excel
lency's better information enables him to take of
the present situation of affairs, he will speedily
proclaim total Amnesty for political offences
to all the good people of North Carolina, Rasn
their taking the oath prescribed IN his
nation of May Goth, 1865.
ResolUed, That the'President of this Conven-
tion transmit copy of the above resolution to
His Excellency, President johnson.
Mr. Sloan of CASTOR, from the committee on
redistricting the State, reported from that COM
mttee as follows:
An Ordinance to Dioide North Carolina into
Seven Congressional Districts.
l. Be it ordained by the people Of North
Carolina, in Convention assembled, and it is
hereby ordained by the authority of the same,
That for the purpose of electing representatives
in tie Congress of the United States, the State
shall be divided into seven districts, as follows,
namely:
The first District shall be composed of the
counties of Currituck, Camden, Pasquotank, Per-
quimans, Gates, Chowan, Hertford, N0fthamp-
ton, Halifax, Martin, BERTHE, Washington, Tyr
rel, Hyde and Beaufort.
I'd District-Pitt, Craven, Jones, Lenoir,
Wayne, Greene, Edgecombe, Wilson, Onslow,
Carteret Duplin and New Hanover.
Sd District Brunswick, Columbus, Bladen,
Harnett, Moore, Montgomery Anson and Stanly
4th Dstrict-Wake, Franklin, Warren, Gran:
vile, Orange, Nash, Johnston and Chatham.
5th Observation-Disclosures, Randolph, Guilford
Rockingham, Davidson, Forsythe, Stokes, Surry,
Person aud Caswcll.
9th District-Rowan, Cabarrus, Union, Neck
lenburg, Castor, Lincoln, Catawba, Iredcll,
Davie, Yadkin, Wilkes and Alexander
7th sDistrict-Ashe, Allegheny, Wataus ga,
Yancey,' Mitchell, Mcdowell, Burke, Caldwell,
Rutherford, Cleayeland, Polk, Henderson, Tran
syvania, Buncombe, Madison, Haywood, Jack
son, Macon, Cherokee and Clay.
Each of which districts shall be entitled to
elect one representative in the Congress of the
United States.
2 The election for representatives in Con-
gress, shall be held and conducted in every re-
spect in conformity with the rules, regulations
and restrictions as set forth and prescribed, in
the 69th Chapter of the Revised Code, except
that the polls shall be compared in the first die
trict at the cours house in the county Of BERTHE:
in fba cnooud nt tho in, fho
Of Lenoir; in the third district, atFthe. court
bouse in the county of Cumberland; in the fourth
district, at the court house in the county of
Wake in the fifth district, at the court house in
the county of 6 uilford; in the>sxth district, at
the court house in the county of Iredell, and in
the seventh district, at the court house in the
county of Buncombe
BMNIr Caldwell of Burke, resolution au-
thorizing the President of the Convention to
procure parchment to enroll the ordinance de-
caring null and void the ordinance of secession,
upon which those delegates who desire it could
record their names with the names of the couI-
ties they represent.
BY Mr McIver of Mecklenburg, an ordinance
to establish a Penitentiary,
BY Mr. Smith of Johnston, resolutions to
amend the constitution, which were referred to
the committee on constitutional amendments
T Resolutions provide that members of the Cen
eral Assembly be required to have been for FIVE
years white citizen of the State, and tor two
years a white citizen Of the district or county he
Observation-Disclosures to be thirty years of age
at least, anG Commoners to be at least twenty
one.
BY Mr. Dornell of Beaufort, an ordinance to
provide for the payment of the debt contracted
before the war.
By Mr. Thompson of BERTHE, an ordinance in
relation to late officers of the State.
Be it ordained by the delegates Of the people
in Convention assembled, That all officers under
the Constitution and laws of North Carolina,
which, since the 20th May, 1861, have been
held by persons who, no matter when chosen,
have taken an oath inconsistent with the official
oath to support the Constitution OF the United
States, are hereby declared to be vacant, and the
General Assembly at its first session hereafter,
shall cause the same to be filled in the manner
prescribed by the Constitution and laws Of the
State, and that all persons who may. be- thus ap-
pointed to fin said offices shall enter upon the
performance of the duties of the same, whenever
the provisional government in this State is at
an end
ByaBIr Love Of jackson, an ordinance re-
establishing the Supreme Court of the State.
IProydes for tie re-estabishment of the Su-
preme Court with the Hons Z NJ Pearson, W
II Battle and N Z Manly as Judges thereof
Mr. Brooks moved to take up the ordinance
providing for election of members of General
Assembly, &C., which was eoncurred IN. Sew
eral amendments were offered, but only two we're
agreed to as follows One by<Mr Love, ofJack-
son, altering the time for the meeting of the
Legislature from the third to the fourth Monday