Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-06-07

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Section l.. That Article VI of the
Constitution of North Carolina be.
and the same is hereby abrogated,
and in lieu thereof shall be substi-
tuted the following Article of said
Constitution:
ARTICLE VI.
SUFFRAGE AND ELIGIBILITY TO OFFICE
QUALIFICATION OF AN ELECToR.
Section 1. Every male person born
in the United States, and every male
person who has been n~aturalized,
twenty one years of age and possess
ing the qualifications set out in this
Article, shall be entitled 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 country 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 one 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. 8. Every person offering to
vote shall be at the time a legally
registered voter as herein prescribed
and in the name 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 emit
tied to vote, he shall have paid, on
or before the first day of March of
the year in which he proposes
to vote, his poll tax, as prescrib-
ed by law, for the previous year.
Poll taxes shall be a 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. 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
State by reason of his failure to pos
sesses the educational qualification
prescribed in section four of-this
Article: Provided he shall have reg
istered in accordance with the terms
of this section prior to December 1,
1908. The General Assembly shall
provide for a permanent record of
all persons who register under this
section. on or before November first,
one thousand nine hundred and
eight; and all such persons shall be
entitled to register and vote in all
elections by the people in this State,
unless disqualified under section two
of this Article: Provided, such per
sons shall have paid their poll tax as
required by law.
Sec. 6 All elections by the people
shall be by ballot, and all elections
by the General assembly shall be
viva voce.
Sec. Z. 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: IT,.
do solemnly wear Cor afirm) that ]
will support and maintain the Con
stitution and laws of the United
States and the Constitution and laws
of North Carolina, net inconsistent
Herewith. and that I Will faithfully
discharge the duties of my Office as
........ So help me, God"
Sec. s. The following classes oil
persons shall be disqualified for of
fee: First, all persons who shall
deny the. being of Almighty God
Second, all persons, who shall have
been convicted, or confessed thei1
guilt on Indictment pending, anc
whether sentenced or not, or under
Judgment suspended, of any treason
or felony, or of any other crime fol-
which the punishment may be i'm
!, prisonment in the penitentiary. sine,
becoming citizens of the United
States. or of corruption and NAL
} practice in Office; unless such person
shall be restored to the rights of eli
tizenship in a manner prescribed b,
law.
Sec. 9. That all of the provision,