Craven; the twenty-second district, Chatham; the twenty-third district, Granville; the twenty-fourth district, Person; the twenty-fifth district, Cumberland; the twenty-sixth district, Sampson; the twenty-seventh district, New Hanover; the twenty-eighth district, Duplin; the twenty-ninth district, Onslow; the thirtieth district, Brunswick, Bladen, and Columbus; the thirty-first district, Robeson and Richmond; the thirty-second district, Anson; the thirty-third district, Cabarrus; the thirty-fourth district, Moore and Montgomery; the thirty-fifth district, Caswell; the thirty-sixth district, Rockingham; the thirty-seventh district, Orange; the thirty-eighth district, Randolph; the thirty-ninth district, Guilford; the fortieth district, Stokes; the forty-first district, Rowan; the forty-second district, Davidson; the forty-third district, Surry; the forty-fourth district, Wilkes and Ashe; the forty-fifth district, Burke and Yancy; the forty-sixth district, Lincoln; the forty-seventh district, Iredell; the forty-eighth district, Rutherford; the forty-ninth district, Buncombe, Haywood, and Macon; the fiftieth district, Mecklenburg; each district to be entitled to one senator.
Two. Until the first session of the general assembly after the year eighteen hundred and forty-one, the house of commons shall be composed of members elected from the counties in the following manner, viz:
The counties of Lincoln and Orange shall elect four members each. The counties of Burke, Chatham, Granville, Guilford, Halifax, Iredell, Mecklenburg, Rowan, Rutherford, Surry, Stokes, and Wake, shall elect three members each.
The counties of Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Buncombe, Cumberland, Craven, Caswell, Davidson, Duplin, Edgecomb, Franklin, Johnston, Montgomery, New Hanover, Northampton, Person, Pitt, Randolph, Robeson, Richmond, Rockingham, Sampson, Warren, Wayne, and Wilkes shall elect two members each.
The counties of Ashe, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Columbus, Chowan, Currituck, Carteret, Cabarrus, Gates, Greene, Haywood, Hertford, Hyde, Jones, Lenoir, Macon, Moore, Martin, Nash, Onslow, Pasquotank, Perquimons, Tyrrell, Washington, and Yancy shall elect one member each.
Sec. 3. One. Each member of the senate shall have usually resided in the district for which he is chosen for one year immediately preceding his election, and for the same time shall have possessed and continue to possess in the district which he represents, not less than three hundred acres of land in fee.
Two. All free men of the age of twenty-one years, (except as is hereinafter declared,) who have been inhabitants of any one district within the State, twelve months immediately preceding the day of any election, and possessed of a freehold within the same district of fifty acres of land, for six months next before and at the day of election, shall be entitled to vote for a member of the senate.[1]
Three. No free negro, free mulatto, or free person of mixed blood, descended from negro ancestors, to the fourth generation inclusive, (though one ancestor of each generation may have been a white person,) shall vote for members of the senate or house of commons.
- ↑ Amended, Dec. 11, 1856.
