Article X. An Ordinance in Relation to Electors of the Senate
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An Ordinance in Relation to Electors of the Senate
Be it ordained by the Delegates of the people of North Carolina, in Convention assembled, and it is hereby ordained by the authority of the same, That every free white man, of the age of twenty-one years, being a native or naturalized citizen of the Confederate States, who has been an inhabitant of the state for twelve months, and of the district in which he proposes to vote six months next before the day of any election, and shall have paid public taxes, shall be entitled to vote for a member of the Senate for the district in which he resides.
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.
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That no person who shall deny the being of God or the truth of the Protestant Religion, or the divine Authority either of the old or new Testament, or who shall hold Religious Principles incompatable with the Freedom and safety of the State, shall be capable of holding any Office or place or Trust or Profit in the Civil department within this State.