Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-06-28
AMENDED AMENDMENT.
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To Amend The Constitution of
North Carolina.

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North Carolina.
The General Assembly of North
Carolina do enact:
Section 1. That chapter 218, Pub
lie Laws of 1899, entitled, can Act
to Amend the Constitution of North
Carolina" be amended so as to make
said act read as follows:
That Article 6 of the Consti-
tuition of North Carolina be, and
the same is hereby abrogated,
and in lieu thereof shall be substi-
tuted the following Article of said
Constitution as an entire and indi-
visible plan of suffrage:
ARTICLE VI.
SUFFRAGE AND ELIGIBILITY TO OFFICE
Section 1. Every male person born
in the United States, and every male
person who has been naturalized,
twenty one years of age and possess
ing the qualifications set out in this
Article, shall be entitled to vote in
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 six months,
and in the precinct, ward or other
election district, in which he offers
to vote four months next preceding
the election: Provided, that removal
from n precinct, ward or other
election district, to another 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 four months after
such removal. No person who has
been convicted, or who has confessed
his guilt in open court upon indict-
ment, 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 restored to
citizenship in the manner prescribed
by law.
Sec. 3. Every person offering to
vote shall be at the time a legally
registered voter as herein prescribed
and in the hereafter pro
vided by law, and the General As
sembly of North Carolina shall enact
general registration laws to carry
into effect the provisions of this
Article.
Sec. 4. Every person presenting
himself for registration shall be
able to read and write any section Of
the constitution in the English Ian
guage; and, before he shall be enti-
tied to vote, he shall have paid, on
or before the first day of May of
the year in which he proposes
to vote, his poll tax for the previous
year, as prescribed by Article
5, Section 1 of the Constitution.
But no male person, who was
on January 1, 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-
| son shall be denied the right to reg
lister and vote at any election IN this
State by reason Of his failure to pos
sess the educational qualifications
herein prescribed: Provided he shall
have registered in accordance with
! the terms of this section prior 10
December 1st, 1908. The General
Assembly shall provide for the reg
istration of all persons entitled to
! ,ote without the educational quail
feation herein prescribed, and shall,
on or before November 1, 1908, pro-
vide for the making of a permanent
record of such registration, and all
persons so registered shall forever
thereafter have the right to vote in
all elections by the people in this
State, unless disqualified under sec
ton 2 Of this article: Provided, such
person shall have paid bis poll tax
as above required.
Sec. 5. That this amendment to
the Constitution is presented and
adopted as one indivisible plan for
the regulation of the suffrage, with
the intent and purpose to SO connect
the different parts and to make them
SO dependent upon each other, that
tie whole shall stand or fall to
gether.
Sec 6 All elections by the people
shall be by ballot, and all elections
by the General assembly shall be
viva voce.
Sec. l.. Every voter in North Car.
DINA, except as in this Article dis.
qualified, shall be eligible to office.
but before entering upon the duties
of the Office he shall take and sub:
scribe the following oath: &c..
do solemnly swear Cor afirm) that
will support and maintain the Con.
stitution and laws of the United
States and the Constitution and laws
of North Carolina, not inconsistent
Herewith, and that I will faithfully
discharge the duties of my Office as
........S So help me, God"