The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-04-08

Twenty-secopd Distriet-Orange shall elect
: one senator 's1.f3 d b1me1t ly.f ysIT
r Twenty-third District-Chatham shall elect
Twenty fourth District -Casswaell shall elect
one senator. i.iie11 , ,isll ~ 'ilG9f
" Twenty fifth District ct--Rockingham shall elect
one senator. l,.l1.. 81 ia-rt,-o, rt .a,,,,
Twenty-siAth District-Alamancea and Guilford
shall elect two senators.
Twenty seventh District-Randolph and Mont
gomery shall elect one senator. e. Eld2i1
, Twenty eighth District--MOore and Richmond
shall elect one senator. .-a,., .....,... +.
Twenty ninth District-Anson anG Union shall
elect one senator. ''t" i'.- -t4tailt'
Thirtieth Notwithstanding shall elect
one senator. i1 sllahhla .1s oii1p9
Thirty-drstD Districts -Cabarrus and stanly shall
Thirty second District -Dayie and Rowan shall
elect one senator ~ '''i4 i. ii'-tr'Hn1
Thirty third District Davidson shall elect one
senator. -p.t i-i7i :s,s f,,-T.r-f
Thirty fourth District -Forsythe and Stokes
shall elect one senator.
Thirty fifth District-surry and Yadkin shall
elect one senator. ~ ltFi3 i.i I93E
Thirty-sixth District-Alexander and Iredell
shall elect one senator. - l-F
Thirty-seventh District-Catawba CASTOR and
Lincoln shall elect one senator. fu
Thirty-eighth District-Cleaveland Polk and
Rutherford shall elect one SENATOR n'l1
Thirty-ninth District-Alleghany, Ashe and
Wilkes shall elect one senator
Fortieth Observation-Disclosures, Henderson and
Pennsylvania shall elect one senator 2
Forty-tirst District-Burke, Caldwell and Wa
tauga shall elect one senator. sr.
Forty-second Decentralization, Mitchell, Nc
DOwell and Yancey shall elect one senator.
Forty-third District-Clay, Cherokee, Hay
wood, Jackson and Macon shall elect one SEN
atOr. .1nila9t 'rt aa=-i.4E
Sec. 5. An enumeration of the inhabitants of
the State shall be taken under the direction of
the General Assembly in the year one thousand
eight hundred and seventy five, and at the end of
every ten years thereafter; and the said Sem
ate Districts, shall be SO altered, by the Gene
raj Assembly, ut the first session after the re-
turn of every enumeration taken as aforesaid,
or by order of Congress, that each Senate
District shall contain, as nearly as may be, an
equal number OF inhabitants, excluding aliens and
Indians not taxed, and shall remain unaltered
until the return of another enumeration, and
shall at all times consist of contiguous territory;
and no county shall be divided in the forma-
ton of q Senate District, unless such county
shall be equitably entitled to two or more Sena-
tors. - -..--r s.r...
Sec. g. The House of Representatives shall be
composed of one hundred and twenty Represen-
tativeS, biennially chosen by ballot, to be elected
by the counties respectively, according to their
population, and each county shall have at least
one Representative in the House of Representa-
tives, although it may not contain the requisite
ratio of representation; this appOrtiOnment shall
be made by the General Assembly at the respec
tive times and periods when the Districts for the
Senate are hereinbefore directed to be laid of.
Sec. T. In making the apportionment in the
House Of Representatives. the ratio of represcn-
tatiOn shall be ascertained by dividing the
amount Of the population of the State, exclusive
of that comprehended within those counties
which do not sevcrally contain the one hundred
and twentieth part of the population OF the
State, by the number of Representatives, less the
number assigned to such counties; and in ascer-
tanning the number of the population of the State,
aliens and Indians not taxed, shall not be in
| cludcd. To each county containing the said
ratio and not twice the said ratio, there shall be
assigned one representative; to each county
containing twice but not three times the said
ito, there shall be assigned two representatives,
and SO or progressively, and then the remaining
representatives shall be assigned severally to
the counties having the largest fractions.
Sec. .. Until the General Assembly shall have
made the appOrti0nment as hereinbefore prOvi-
ded, the House of Representatives shall be COM
| posed OF members elected from the counties in
the following manner, to wit: $50.
The county of Wake shall elect four members;
the counties OF Craven, Granville, Halifax and
New Hanover shall elect three members each
the counties of Caswell Chatham, Cumberland,
| Davidson, Duplin, Edgecombe, Franklin, Gull
ford, lredell, Johnston, Mecklenburg, North
anpton, Orange, Pitt, Randolph, Robson, Rock
ingham Rowan, Warren and Wayne shall elect
two members each; the counties OF Alamancc,
| Alexander, Allegheny, Anson, Ashe, Beaufort,
Berthe, Eladen. Brunswick, Buncombe, Burke,
| Cabarrus, Caldwell, Camden, Carteret, Catawba,
Cherokee, Chowan, Clay, Cleveland, Columbus,
Currituck, Dayie, Forsyth, CASTOR, Gates, Green,
| Harnett, Henderson, Haywood, Hertford, Hyde,
Jackson, Jones, Lenoir, Lincoln, Macon, Madi-
| son, Martin, Mcdowell, Mitchell Montgomery,
Moore, Nash, Onslow, Pasquotank, Perquimans,
Person, Polk, Richmond, rutherford, Sampson,
aRey oey wssbssos sGfss suF Vat Ws TIse Wsn
| Yadkin and Yancev shall elect one member each.
Sec. 9. Each member of the Senate shall benot
less than twenty five years of age shall have re-
sided in the State as citizen two years, and
shall have usually resided in the District for
| ding his election. 1l ii .s'Hill''
| Sec 10. Each member of the House of Rep
resentatves shall be qualified electOr of the
State, and shall have resided in the county for
which he is chosen for one year Immediately pre-
ceding his election. t.
Sec IL. In the election OF oil officers, whose
appointment shall be conferred upon the Gene
raj Assembly by the CONSTITUTIONAL vote shall
be viva vOce. .....-. .-. -f, H'3ts
Sec II. The General Assembly shall have pow
er to pass general laws regulating divorce and
alimony, but shall not have power to grant di-
vorce or secure alimony in any individual case. -
! Sec. IL. The General Assembly shall not have
| power to pass any private law to alter the name
OF any person, or to legitimate any person not
born in lawful wedlock, or to restore to the
| rlSHtS OI cltlZeuSnlp any person convicted OF
| an Infamous crime, but shall have power to
| pass general laws regulating the same. Lr
| Sec. IA. The General Assembly shall not pass
| any private law, unless it shall be made to ap-
| pear, that thhty days notice of application 10
pass such law shall have been given, under such
direction and in such manner US shall be provided
by law.
| Sec. Is. If vacancies shall occur in the Gene
raj Assembly by death, resignation or otherwise,
writs OF election shall be issued by the Governor
under such regulations as may be prescribed by
| law. i.-t. .,-i+.+. -...-. .a.-l.f... 20 =
Sec. 16. No law shall be passed to raise money
on the credit of the State, to pledge the faith
of the State directly or indirectly TOR the pay
| ment of any debt, or to impose any tax upon the
people of the State, or to allow the counties, cit
les or towns to do So unless the bill for the pur
pose shall nave been read three several times in
each house of the General Assembly and passed
| three several readings, which readings shall have
! been on three different days, and agreed to by
each House respectively, and unless the yeas and
rays on the second and third readings of the bill
shall have been entered on the Journal.
Sec II. The General Assembly shall regulate
entails in such manner as to prevent perpetuitics.
Sec. IL. Each house shall keep q journal of its
proceedings, which shall be printed and made
General Assembly. = iE b., 'a.tl
Sec 10. Any member of either house may dis
sent from, and protest against, any act or resolve,
| which he may think Injurious to the public or
| any individual, and have the reasons of his dis
| sent entered upon the Journal.
| Sec. 90. Tie House of Representatives shall
choose their own Speaker and other officers.
| Sec. 2l..The Lieutenant Governor shall preside
in the Senate, but shall have no vote, unless 1t
| may be equally divided. ..s .Tu
Sec. 90 The Senate shall choose its other off,
GERS, and also speaker, (pro tempore,) in the alb
sence of the Lieutenant Governor, or when he
shall exercise the Office of Governor. 3.J
Sec. D. The style of the acts shall be-" The
| General Assembly of North. Carolina do enact"