Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1899-02-24
SUFFRAGE
AMENDMENT.
Determined Upon By
The Democratic
Legislative eau
Gus.
Roanoke News, Weldon.

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} caucus has determined on TIL
constitutional amendment to bs
submitted 10 the vo ers. at tb,
next regular election.
The amendment to be sub
} mitted is SUB < nt;ally as follows
Section /. That Article V
of the Constitution of North
! Carolina be and the same is
hereby repealed, and in lier
thereof shall be substituted the
following article ct said Consti
tuition:
Suffrage and eligitabilily tc
office qualification of an elect
or.
Section I. Every male per
son born in the United States
and every male person who has
been naturalIzed, twenty one
years of age and possessing the
qualifications set out in this ar
ticle, shall be entitled to vote at
any election by the people in
the State, except as herein oth>
er~lse provided. Sec. 2. He
shall be a resident in the State
Of North Carolina for two years,
in the county six months, and
in the precinct, ward or other
election districts, in which he
offers to vote four months next
preceding the election. Pro
Vided, that removal from one
precinct ward or other election
district to another in the same
county, shall not operate to de-
prive any person of the right to
vote in the precinct, ward or
other election district, from
which he has removed, until
four months after such rem oval.
No person who has been con-
victed, or who has confessed his
guilt in open court upon indict-
ment, of any crime, the punish
ment of which is, or may here
after be, Imprisonment in the
State prison shall be permitted
to vote unless the said person
shall first b.: restored to citizen
ship III the manner prescribed
by law.
Section 3, Every person Of
fering to vote shall be at the
time legally registered voter,
as herein prescribed, and in the
manner hereinafter provided by
law, and the General Assem- bly,
of North Carolina shall enact
general registration laws to car
ry into effect the provisions OF
this article.
Section 4. Every person pre-
senting himself for registration
shall be able to read and write
any section Of the constitution
in the English language, and i'll
addition. thereto shall have paid
on or before the first day of
March, of the year in which he
proposes to vote, his poll tax as
prescribed by law for the pre-
vious year, and he shall exhibit
his receipt thereof, when he Of
fers to vote. Poll taxes shall be
a lien only On assessed property.
Section 5. No male person,
who was on June Ist, 1867, or
at auy time prior thereto, enti
tied to vote under the laws of
any State IN the United States
wherein he then resident, and
no lineal descendant O., any such
person, shall be denied the
right to register aud vote at any
election in this State by reason
of his failure to possess the ed
ucational qualifications prescrib
ed in Section 4 of this article.
Provided he shall have registers
ed in accordance with the terms
of this article prior to Decem Der
I, 1908. and no person shall be
entitled to register under this
section after that date.
The General Assembly shall,
at its first session after the adop-
ton of this amendment provid e
the manner in which the classes
OF persons provided for in this
section shall register.
Later-A dispatch from Rail
eigh February 18th, says: The
Senate today passed the Consti>
tuition suffrage amendments by
vote of forty two to six. 1t
now only remains to be ratified
by the people.