The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-06-15
A RTICLE vi.

ARTICLE vi.
Suffrage and Eligibility to Office
Qualifications of an Elector.
Section /. Every male person born
in the United States, and every male
person who has been paturalize6, q
years of age and possessing the quail
ifications set ont in this Article shall
be entitled to vote at any election by
the people in the State, except as
herein otherwise provided.
Sec. .. He shall have resided in
the State of North Carolina for two
years, in the county six months and
in the precinct, ward or other cleo
ton district, in which he offers to
vote four months next preceding the
election: Provided, 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 a precinct, ward or other election
district from which he has removed
until 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 is, or may
thereafter be, Imprisonment in the
State prison, shall be permitted tc
vote unless the said person shall be
first restored to citizenship in TIE
manner prescribed by law.
Sec. 3. Every person offering to
vote shall be at the time legally
registered voter as herein prescribed
and in the manner hereinafter pro-
vided by law, and the General AS
sembly of North Carolina shall enact
general registration laws to carry in
to effect the provisions of this Ar
ticlo.
Sec. 4. Every person presenting
himself for registration shall be able
to read and write any section of the
Constitution in the English language;
and, before he shall be entitled to
vote, have paid, on or before the first
day of March of the year in which he
proposes to vote, his poll tax, as pre-
scribed by law, for the previous year.
Poll taxes shall be . lien only on as
sessed property, and no process shall
issue to enforce the collection of the
same except against assessed prop
erty.
Sec. 5. Nc male person, who was
on January l, 1867, or at any time
prior thereto, entitled to vote under
the laws of any State in the United
States wherein he then resided, and
no lineal descendant of any such per.
SOD; shall be denied the right to reg
lister and vote at any election in this
State by reason of his failure to po-
sess the educational qualification:
prescribed in section of this Article
Provided. He shall have registered
: in accordance with the terms of thi!
, section prior to Dec. 1, 1908.
The General Assembly shall pro
vide for permanent record of al
persons who register under this sec
ton on or before November l, 1908
! and all such persons shall be entitlet
] to register and vote at all election
5 by the people in this State, unles
disqualified under section 2 of thi
Article: Provided such persons shall
q have paid their poll tax as required
o by law.
Sec. 6. All elections by the peopl
shall be by ballot, and all election
il by the General Assembly shall b
g viva voce.
y Sec. 7. Every voter in North Cal
;, DINA, except as in this Art. disquall
d fed, shall be eligible to Office, bu
q before entering upon the duties Q
? the Office he shall take and subscrib
y the following oath: %............ d
d solemnly swear or affirm, that WI
!. support and maintain the constitr
d ton and laws of the U. S. and tn
l. constitution and laws of North Care
lima, not inconsistent Herewith, an
Is that will faithfully discharge th
n duties of my Office as ......... s
le help me God"
r. Sec. 8. The following classes I
4. persons shall be disqualified for o
y fee: First, all persons who deny II
of being of Almighty God. Second, a
persons who shall have boon convi
ct ted or confessed their guilt on indie
ts mept pending, and whether senter
70 ced or not; or under Judgment su
r pend ed, of any treason or felony,
IN any ther crime for which the pul
ut jshment may be Imprisonment in tt
ls penitentiary, since becoming either
ID Of the United States. of corruptlt
and malpractice in Office unless sn'
Cd person shall be restored to the RICH
re Of citizenship N manner prescri
og ed by law.
Sec, 9. The act shall be in for
rom and after its ratification.