The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-10
THE NEW AMENDED AMENDMENT.


THE NEW AMENDED AMENDMENT.
Full Text Of the Proposed Constitutional
Amendment as Passed by the General As
sembly, June IS, 1900.
Several important changes in the
Amendment were made by the Legis-
lature in session, Wednesday, June
18th.
1. Section 4, containing the Edu-
cational Clause, and Section 5, con-
tanning the grandfather clause
ere consolidated.
2. Time for paying poll tax was
changed from March 1 to May /.
3. This provision in the original
amendment is omitted in the amend
ment now submitted Con the ground
that by it the school fund might lose
heavily,) viz: "Poll taxes shall be a
lien only on assessed property, and
no process shall issue to enforce the
collection of the same except against
assessed proper"
4. It is declared that the amend
ment is ''indivisible'' and must
stand OF fall as a whole.
5. A majority of the votes cast
will be sufficient to adopt the amend
ment-not a majority of qualified"
voters, as in original draft.
The proposed Constitutional
Amendment, as corrected June ID,
1900, reads as follows:
That Article VI. of the Constitu-
ton of North Carolina be, and the
same is hereby abrogated and in lieu
thereof shall be substituted the fol
lowing article of said Constitution
as an entire and indivisible plan of
suffrage:
ARTICLE VI.
SUFFRAGE AND ELIGIBILITY TO OFFICE.
(SectiOnD Every male person born
in the United States and every male
person who has been n~aturalized, 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 y 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 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 81 Every person offering
to vote shall be at the time a legally
registered voter as herein prescribed
and in the manne herein after 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 arti-
Gle.
(Section A. 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 1, 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