Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-07-05

! SEC. 2. No member Of the Senate, or of the
House of Commons shall be eligible to any Office
within the gift of the General Assembly, during
the time for which he may be elected aasse =
j = SEC. ). No person who may have been public
I treasurer, Or any other receiver of the public
moneys, shall be eligible to any Office or place of
trust or profit, until he shall have fully accounted
with the proper authorities for ali moneys which
| may have come to his hands. t1..a &. .-s@
| SEC, No clergyman, preacher OF tne, gos-
pei, OF any denominations shall be capable OF be-
ing a member Of either the Senate, House of Com
mons, or Council of State While he continues in
the exercise of the pastoral function ..e .7...: .
| Sec. s. No person who shall hold any Office or
place of trust OF profit under the United States or
under this State, under any other State or gov
eminent, under any department. Of the United
States or of this State of any other State shall
hold Or exercise any other Office OF place of trust
or profit, under the authority of this State, or be
eligible to d seat in either House of the General
Assembly Procided, That nothing herein con-
tanned shall extend to officers in the militia or JUS
tees of the peace .~,t- 11'.'' H. 81 -~Ial
! Sec. 6. Any Justice of the Supreme Court or
Judge of the Superior Courts NAV be removed
FROM office for mental or physical inability upon
q concurrent resolution of two-thirds Of both
branches of the General Assembly. The Justice
or Judge against whom the General Assembly may
be about to proceed shall receive thereof accom-
| panied by copy of the causes alleged for his re-
mova, at least twenty days before the day or which
either branch of the General Assembly may act
| thereon. ...t ..': H....... ...- ....,-. '...
Sec. 7. Upon the conviction of any Justice of
| the Peace of any infamous crime or Of coTrupt on
and Malpractice III office, the commission of such
Justice shall be thereby vacated and he shall be
| forever disqualified from holding such appoint
/ ment. ......
SEC 8. No person shall be deemed qualified to
vote in any election or appointment to office, or
place established by the Constitution OF by the
General Assembly, Or be deemed eligible to such
office place, who shall have been adjudged gull
ty of felony, of any infamous crime, unless such
person shall have been fully pardo1,ed or restored
to credit in a mode prescribed by law and every
person adjugded guilty of man-slaughter and dis
charged shall be deemed to be pardoned
SEC. 8. Every person who may hold an Office
place of trust profit under the State any de-
| partment thereof, and every person allowed IS to
vote for such person shall be white person and
citizen of the United States.
| SEC. 10. The term white person, used in this
Constitution, shall include those who have less
than one-sixteenth of negro blood.
ARTICLE vi.
IMPEACHMENT.
| SECTION |. The Governor. Justices of the Su-
preme Court, and Judges of the Superior Courts,
and all other officers of the State Except Justi
of the Peace and militia officers,) may be i'm
! peached for wilfully violating any article Of the
| Constitution, NAL administration, corruption.
| Sec. 2. Judgment, in case of Impeachment,
shall not extend further than to removal from Of
flee and disqualification to hold aud enjoy any Of
flee of honor, trust OF profit, under this State !;
but the party convicted. may, nevertheless be
| liable to Indictment, trial. Judgment and punish
ment according to law.
! Sec. =. The House Of Commons shall have the
sole power of impeachment The Senate shall
have the sole powertotr try lmpeachments No per-
son shall be cOlly icted upon any impeachment un
less two thirds of the Senators present shall con-
cur i'll such conviction and before the trial of any
! impeachment, the members Of the Senate shall
! take an oath affirmation truly and impartially
! to try and determine the charge in question ac-
! ARTICLE VII.
! MISCELLANEOUS
| SECTION /. All commissions shall run i'll the
name of the State Of North Carolina, and bear
! test and be signed by the Governor. All writs
shall in the same manner and bear test and
be signed by the clerks of the respective courts.
! Indictments shall conclude against the peace and
| dignity of the State
Sec. 2 A school OF schools shall be established
| by the General Assembly, for the convenient in
struction of YOUTH with such salaries to the mas
tiers, paid by the public, may enable the to
instruct at low prices and all useful learning
shall be duly encouraged and promoted in one or
more Universities.
| Sec g. No foreigner shall be deemed d citizen
of the State until he shall have been duly natural
| lied.
SEC T. The person of a debtor, where there is
| not strong presumption of fraud, shall not be
continued in prison after delivering up bona Jide,
all his estate real and personal for the use of his
creditors in such manner shall be regulated by
| law All prisoners shall be baiable by sufficient
surieties, unless for capital offences, when the
proof is evident, presumption great.
! Sec. 5. There shall be no establishment of any
one religious church or denomination in this State
in preference to any other neither shall any per-
son, on any pretence whatsoever be compelled to
| attend any place of worship contrary to his own
| faith OF Judgment nor be obliged to pay for the
purchase of any glebe, or the building of any house
of worship, or for the maintenance of any minis
ter ministry, contrary to what he believes to be
right, or has voluntarily and personally engaged
to perform but all persons shall be at liberty to
exercise their own mode of worship Provided
| That nothing herein contained shall be construed
to exempt preachers of reasonable seditious
discourses from legal trial and punishment.
| SEC. 6. Private property shall not be taken for
public use, without just mpensation paid in due
time. -.
! Sec. 7. Treason against the State shall consist
[ only in levying against the State, or In ad-
| herring to it's enemies, giving them aid and COM
fort. No person shall be convicted of treason
less on the testimony of two witnesses to the
overt act or on confession in open court.
Sec. s. Capitation tax shall be equal throughout
the State upon all individuals subject to the same
| Provided, That exemptions of taxable polls as
! heretofore prescribed by law, may be allowed in
cases of bodily OF mental infrmity
| Sec. g. Every person chosen OF appointed to
any office or place of trust profit in the State,
besides any oath prescribed for faithful dis
duties, take an oath affirmation to support,
maintain and defend the Constitution of the State,
not inconsistent with the Constitution of the Uni
ted States. ....-
Sec 10. Wherever in this Constitution there
is a property qualification mentioned, its value