Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-02-02
THE SUFFRAGE
The Bill Pending Before the Gen.
eral Assemb Y as to our New
Election Law.

The General Assembly of North
Carolina do enact:
That article vi of the Const:tu
ton of North Carolina be, and the
same is hereby repealed, and IN
lieu thereof shall be substituted
the following article of said Con-
stitution:
ARTICLE vi.
Section l. Every male person
b orn in the United States and ev
cry male person who has been
~naturalized, 81 years of age and
possessing the qualifications set
out in this article, shall be emil
tied to vote at any election by the
people in the State, except as
herein otherwise provided.
Sec. 2. He shall have resided
in the State of North Carolina for
two years, in the county nine
months, and in the precinct, ward
or other district in which he offers
to vote, six months next preced-
ing the election: Provided, That
removal from M precinct, ward
or other election district, to an
other in the same county, shall
not operate to deprive any person
of the right to vote in the precinct.
ward or other election district,
from which he has removed until
six months after such removal.
No person who has been convicted
or who has confessed his guilt in
open court upon indictment, of
any crime, the punishment of
which now is or may hereafter be,
Imprisonment in the State prison,
shall be permitted to vote unless
the said person shall be first re-
stored to citizenship IN the man
ner prescribed by Law.
Sec. 8. Every person offering
to vote shall be at the time a le-
gally registered voter as herein
prescribed and in the manner heres
after provided by law, and the
General Assembly of North Caro-
lima shall enact general registra-
lion laws tc carry into effect the
provisions Of this article.
Sec. 4. Any person present
ing himself for registration or
voting shall be able to read and
write any part of the Constitution,
in the English language, and shall
have paid by the first Of February
the poll tax for the previous year,
as prescribed by law, and shall ex-
nibit the receipt therefor. Poll
taxes shall be a lien only on as
sessed property, and no process
shall issue to enforce the collec-
ton of the same except against as
sessed property.
Sec. 5. No male person who
was on January /, 1867, or at
any time prior thereto, entitled to
vote under the laws of any State
in the United States wherein be
then resided; and no SOD or grand
son of any such person not less
than 81 years old at the date of
the adoption Of this amendment of
The Constitution shall be denied
the right to register and vote at
any election in this State by rea-
son of the educational qualiica-
ton prescribed in this article, pro-
vided he shall have registered
prior to December 1, 1902, in &C.
cordance with the terms of this
article, and no person shall be al
lowed to register under this Sec
ton after that date.
Section 6. A separate registra-
ton under this section shall be
made by the registration officer
who shall, at the close Of the
registration in tle year 1902,
make a sworn copy in duplicate
of the list of persons registered
under this section, showing in
detail whether the applicant res
gistered as a voter Of 1867, or
prior thereto, or as a son, or
grandson of such voter, AMI the
registration officer shall deposit
one of said duplicates in the
Office Of the Secretary of State,
to be by him recorded and pres
served as a part Of the permanent
records of his eff 70, and the other
Ct said duplicates he shall fle
with the clerk of the Superior