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An Act concerning a Convention to amend the Constitution of the State. 1834-1835 3 (1834)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsnc0161 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF NORTHT CAROLINA, Enacted by the General Assembly, begun and held at Raleigh, on the seventeenth day of .N'ovember, in ihe year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-fratr, and in the fifty- ninth year of the Independence of the soid State. DAVID L. SWAIN, ESQUIRE, GO YERNOR. CHAPIER 1. An ACT concerning a Convention to amendithc Constitution ot the State. WiTEREAS, the General Assembly of North Carolina have reason Preamble. to believe that a large portion, if not a majority, of the free men of the State, are anxious to amend the Constituijon dhereof, in certain particulars, hereinafter specified; and whereas, while the General Assembly disclaim all right and power in themselves to alter the fun- damental law, tht y consider it their duty to adopt measures for ascer- taming the witl of their constituents, and to provide the means for carrying that will into ef'ect, when ascertained; therefore, Be it enacted by the General .lssembly of the State oJ Nort' Car- olina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority ol the same, That Co. Courts to the Court of Plens and Quarter Sessions of each and every county appoint sn- in the State, at the first term that shall be held after the first dayspectors to of January, eighteen hundred and thirty five, hall appoint- twosuperintend inspectors to superintend the polls to be opened at each and every he pols; and election precinct in said counties, for ascertaining, by ballot, the Will n Cabe af fa- of the free men oF North Carlina, relative to the meeting of a State ture, oithe i Convention. And if any court or courts should fail to make such up- inspect'rs,&P pointments, or if any inspector, so appointed, shall fail to act, it shall be the duty of the sheriff, or the person acting as his deputy on such occasion, with the advice of one justice of the peace; or, if none pro- sent, with the advice of three freeholders, to uppoint an inspector, or inspectors, in the place of him or them who failed to act, which in- spectors, wh'Len diuly sworn by some justice of the peace, or freehold. er, to perform the dities of the place with fidelity, shall have the same authority as if appointed by the court. II. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the sheriffs of thc'respective counties in this State, to open polls at the several hbe poll clection precicts in said counties, on Wednesday and Thursday theandwhiomay Ist and 2d of April next, when and where all persons qualified by vote. the Constitution to vote fur members of the House of Commons, may vote for, or against, a State Convention those who wish a convention, voting with a printed or written ticket, Convention, and those who do not want a convention, uoting in the same way No Convention, or Against Convention. I. Be itfurther enacted, That it shall be the duty of the sheriffs Sh'fs to nalke to make duplicate statements of their polls in their respective conn.-statements of ties, sworn to before the clerk of the county court, one copy of which their polls. sha!l be deposited in said clerk's office, and the other copy transmit- ted to the Governor of the State, at Raleigh, immediately after the election. IV. Be it furthcr enacted, That it shall be the duty of .the Gover- 0ov'rta coim. nor, as soon as he shall have received the returns of the Sheriffs, in pare the No.

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