The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-31
ARTICLE VI.
SUFFRAGE AND ELIGIBILITY TO Off

CSection1) Every male person born
in the United States and every male
person who has been naturalized, 81
years of age and possessing the quail
fcations set out in this article, shall
be entitled to vote at any election by
the people in the State, except as
herein otherwise provided.
(Section p He shall have residedin
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 cleo
ton 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 dis
trict, from which he has removed
until four months after such re-
mOval. 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 restored to
citizenship in the manner prescribed
by law.
(Section - Every person offering
to vote shall be at the time a legally
registered voter as herein prescribed
and in the manner herein after pro-
vided by law, and the General AS
semb1y of North Carolina shall enact
general registration laws to carry
into effect the provisions of this arti-
Gle.
(Section ~ Every person present
ing himself for registration shall be
able to read and write any sec
ton of the Constitution in the English
language, and before he shall be en-
titled 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 l., 1857, or at any time
prior thereto, entitled to vote
under the laws of any State in the
United States wherein he then re
sided, and no lineal descendant of
any such person, shall be denied the
right to register and vote at any cleo
ton in this State by reason of his
failure to possess the educational
qualification herein prescribed
Provided, He shall have reg
istered in accordance with the
terms of this Section prior to
December 1, 1908. The General AS
sembly shall provide for the reistra-
ton of all persons entitled to vote
without the educational qualifca-
tions herein prescribed, and shall, on
or before November 1st, 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 his poll tax
as above required.
(Section s. 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 sc connect
the different parts, and tOmake them
so dependent upon each other, that
the whole shall stand or fall to-
gether.
(Section g. All elections by the
people shall be by ballot, and all cleo
lions by the General Assembly shall
be viva pee
(Section y Every voter in North
Carolina, except as in this Article
disqualified, shall be eligible to office,
but before entering upon the duties
of the office he shall take and sub
scribe the following oath: Il, -,
do solemnly swear Cor afirm) that I
will support and maintain the Con
stitutiOn 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 .