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Rh 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.

One. Capitation-tax shall be equal throughout the State, upon all individuals subject to the same.

Two. All free males over the age of twenty-one years and under the age of forty-five years, and all slaves over the age of twelve years and under the age of fifty years, shall be subject to capitation-tax, and no other person shall be subject to such tax: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall prevent exemptions of taxable polls, as heretofore prescribed by law in cases of bodily infirmity.

No person who shall hold any office or place of trust or profit under the United States, or any department thereof, or under this State, or any other State or government, shall hold or exercise any other office or place of trust or profit under the authority of this State, or be eligible to a seat in either house of the general assembly: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall extend to officers in the militia or justices of the peace.

President.

Secretary. Assistant Secretary. 



Clause two: Every free white man at the age of twenty-one years, being a native or naturalized citizen of the United States, and who has been an inhabitant of the State for twelve months immediately preceding the day of any election, and shall have paid public, taxes, shall be entitled to a vote for a member of the senate for the district in which he resides. 



[A State convention, called by an act of the legislature, passed anordinance of secession May 20, 1861, and revised the State constitution, which was not submitted to the people for ratification.] 



Be it declared and ordained by the delegates of the people of the State of North Carolina in convention assembled, and it is hereby declared and ordained, That slavery and involuntary servitude, other-