The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1900-05-31
SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT.

repealed, and in lieu thereof
shall be substituted the follow
ing Article of said Constitution: |:
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
naturalized, twenty-one years
of age and possessing the quali-
fications set out in this Article,
shall be entitled to vote at any
election by the people in the
State, except as herein other
wise 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 elec-
ton; 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 pre-
cinct, ward or other election
district, from which he has re-
moved until four 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 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 here>
in prescribed and in the manner
hereinafter provided by law,
and the General Assembly OF
North Carolina shall enact
general registration laws to
carry into effect the provisions
of this Article.
Sec. 4. Every person present.
ing himself for registration shall
be able TO read and write any
section Of the Constitution IN
the English language; and in
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
previous year. Poll taxes shall
be a lieu only on assessed prop
erty, and no process shall issue
to enforce the collection of the
same except against assessed
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 he then resided, and no
lineal descendant OF any such
person, shall be denied the right
to register and vote at any elec-
tion in this State by reason Of his
failure TO possess the education.
al qualifications prescribed In
section 4 of this Article: Proyi-
ded, He shall have registered in
accordance with the terms Of
this Article prior 10 December / 7,
1908, and no person shall be en-
titled TO register under this Sec
ton after that date.
The General Assembly shall,
at It's first session after the adop-
tion Of this amendment, provide
the manner in which the classes
Of persons provided for in this
section shall register.
Sec. @. All elections by the
people shall be by ballot, and
all elections by the General AS
sembly shall be viva voce.
Sec. Z. Every voter in North
Carolina, except as In this Arti.
Gle disqualified, shall be eligible
TO Office, but before enterins
upon the duties Of the Office ht
shall take and subscribe the fol-
lowing oath: "1, do SOL
emnly swear or affirm, that
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