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ously taken the oaths of office in the presence of the members of both branches of the General Assembly, or before the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, who, in case the Governor elect should be prevented from attendance before the General Assembly, by sickness or other unavoidable cause, is authorised to administer the same.

ARTICLE III.

SECTION 1. The Governor, Judges of the Supreme Court, and Judges of the Superior Courts, and all other officers of this State, (except Justices of the Peace and Militia officers,) may be impeached for wilfully violating any Article of the Constitution, mal-administration, or corruption.

Judgment, in cases of impeachment, shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under this State; but the party convicted may, nevertheless, be liable to indictment, trial, judgment, and punishment, according to law.

The House of Commons shall have the sole power of impeachment. The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments; no person shall be convicted upon any impeachment, unless two-thirds of the Senators present shall concur in such conviction; and before the trial of any impeachment, the members of the Senate shall take an oath or affirmation, truly and impartially to try and determine the charge in question, according to evidence.

SEC. 2. Any Judge of the Supreme Court, or of the Superior Courts, may be removed from office for mental or physical inability upon a concurrent resolution of two-thirds of both branches of the General Assembly. The Judge against whom the Legislature may be about to proceed, shall receive notice thereof accompanied by a copy of the causes alleged for his removal, at least twenty days before the day on which either branch of the General Assembly shall act thereon.

The salaries of the Judges of the Supreme Court, or of the Superior Courts, shall not be diminished during their continuance in office.

SEC. 3. Upon the conviction of any Justice of the Peace of any infamous crime, or of corruption and mal-practice in office, the commission of such Justice shall be thereby vacated, and he shall be forever disqualified from holding such appointment.

Sec. 4. The General Assembly, at its first session after the year one thousan 1 eight hundred and thirty-nine, and from time to time thereafter, shall appoint an Attorney General, who shall be commissioned by the Governor, and shall hold his office for the term of four years; but if the General Assembly should hereafter extend the term during which Solicitors of the State shall hold their offices, then they shall have power to extend the term of office of the Attorney General to the same period.

ARTICLE IV.

SECTION 1. No Convention of the People shall be called by the General Assembly, unless by the concurrence of two-thirds of all the members of each House of the General Assembly.

No part of the Constitution of this State shall be altered, unless a Bill to alter the same shall have been read three times in each House of the General Assembly, and agreed to by threefifths of the whole number of each House respectively; nor shall any alteration take place until the Bill, so agreed to, shall have been published six months previous to a new election of members to the General Assembly. If, after such publication, the alteration proposed by the preceding General Assembly, shall be agreed to in the first session thereafter, by two-thirds of the whole representation in each House of the General Assembly, after the same shall have been read three times, on three several days, in each House, then the said General Assembly shall prescribe a mode by which the Amendment or Amendments may be submitted to the qualified voters of the House of Commons throughout the State; and if, upon comparing the votes given in the whole State, it shall appear that a majority of the voters have approved thereof, then, and not otherwise, the same shall become a part of the Constitution.

SEC. 2. The thirty-second section of the Constitution shall be amended to read as follows:-No person who shall deny the being of God, or the truth of the Christian Religion, or the divine authority of the Old or New Testament, or who shall hold religious principles incompatible with the freedom or safety of the State, shall be capable of holding any office or place of trust or profit in the civil department within this State.

SEC. 3. Capitation tax shall be equal throughout the State upon all individuals subject to the same.

All free males over the age of twenty-one, years, and und the age of twelve of forty-five years, and all slaves over the ag of twelve years, and under the age of fifty years, shall be su ject to Capitation tax, and no other person shall be subject t such tax; provided, that nothing herein contained shall preve exemptions of taxable polls as heretofore prescribed by law cases of bodily infirmity.

SEC. 4. No person who shall hold any office or place of trus or profit under the United States, or any department thereo or under this State, or any other State or Government, sha hold or exercise any other office or place of trust or profit un der the authority of this State, or be eligible to a seat in eithe House of the General Assembly: Provided, That nothin herein contained shall extend to officers in the Militia or Justice of the Peace.

Ratified in Convention, this eleventh day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.

NATHANIEL MACON, President.

EDMUND B. FREEMAN, Secretary of Convention.
JOSEPH D. WARD, Assistant Secretary.

SYNOPSIS OF THE CONSTITUTION,

SO FAR AS IT RELATES TO THE

APPOINTMENT OR ELECTION OF GOVERNOR, JUDGES AND MEMBERS OF ASSEMBLY.

GOVERNOR.-The Governor is to be elected by the qualified voters for members of the House of Commons. He is chosen for a term of two years, and cannot serve more than two terms in succession. JUDGES.-The Judges of the Supreme and Superior Courts are elected by the Legislature, and hold their offices for life or during good behaviour. The State Treasurer, Comptroller, and Secretary of State are also elected by the Legislature, and they hold their offices for the term of two years. State is at present divided into seven Judicial Circuits, and there are as many Circuits or Superior Court Judges. In each Judicial Circuit is a Solicitor, or State's Attorney for the Superior Court; and the Solicitor of the Raleigh Circuit also attends the Supreme Court, and is called the Attorney General. All these Solicitors are elected for four years by the Legislature.

The

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.-These are in effect appointed by the Legislature. The Assembly recommends by a vote to the Governor, and the Governor issues a commission to all who are thus recommended or voted for by the Assembly. THE ASSEMBLY.-The Legislature, according to the Constitution, is to consist of fifty Senators and one hundred and twenty Representatives. The members of the House are apportioned over the State according to the federal population. The federal population is obtained by adding to the whole number of free persons, three-fifths of all others except Indians not taxed.

Each County, however, is to be allowed one Representative at the periods when the apportionments are made; and the re

maining part of 120 are apportioned among the othe Counties according to the federal population as aforesaid. THE QUALIFICATIONS OF MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE.-Each member of the House of Commons must have resided fo one year, immediately previous to the election in the Count which he represents; and he must also have possessed, in the County which he represents, for six months before the eleg tion, a freehold of one hundred acres of land.

VOTERS FOR MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE.-All free white persons twenty-one years old, and who have paid public taxes, an entitled to vote for members of the House of Commons for th county or district in which the said persons have resided fo twelve months preceding the day of election. SENATE. The fifty Senators of the State are apportioned amon fifty districts laid off to the amount of taxes paid. The dis tricts, according to the requirements of the Constitution wen laid off by the Legislature, at its first session after the yea 1841; they are again to be laid off at the first session afte 1851, and then every twenty years. The members of the House are to be apportioned at the same times. SENATORS must have resided for a year preceding the election in the district which they represent, and for the same time and in the same district shall have possessed and still possess a freehold of three hundred acres of land.

VOTERS FOR SENATORS.-All free white men, twenty-one years old, and who have paid public taxes, and been inhabitants o any one district in the State for twelve months preceding the election, and who have possessed, each, a freehold of fifty acres of land, in the district, for six months before, and a the day of election, are entitled to vote for members of the Senate.

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