cal and agricultural
implements of mechanics and farmers, libraries and scientific
instruments, or any other personal property, to a value not exceeding
three hundred dollars.

[Sidenote: Taxes levied by county commissioners.]

SEC. 6. The taxes levied by the commissioners of the several counties
for county purposes shall be levied in like manner with the State
taxes, and shall never exceed the double of the State tax, except for a
special purpose, and with the special approval of the General Assembly.

[Sidenote: Acts levying taxes shall state objects, etc.]

SEC. 7. Every act of the General Assembly levying a tax shall state the
special object to which it is to be applied, and it shall be applied to
no other purpose.

ARTICLE VI.

SUFFRAGE AND ELIGIBILITY TO OFFICE.

[Sidenote: Qualifications of elector.]

SECTION 1. Every male person born in the United States, and every male
person who has been naturalized, twenty-one years of age, and possessing
the qualifications set out in this article, shall be entitled to vote at
any election by the people in the State, except as herein otherwise
provided.

[Sidenote: Qualifications of elector.]

SEC. 2. He shall have resided in the State of North Carolina for two
years, in the county six months, and in the precinct, ward or other
election district, in which he offers his vote, four months next
preceding the election: _Provided_, that removal from one precinct, ward
or other election district, to another in the same county, shall not
operate to deprive any person of the right to vote in the precinct, ward
or other election district from which he has removed until four months
after such removal. No person who has been convicted, or who has
confessed his guilt in open court upon indictment, of any crime, the
punishment of which now is or may hereafter be imprisonment in the
State's Prison, shall be permitted to vote unless the said person shall
be first restored to citizenship in the manner prescribed by law.

[Sidenote: Qualification of elector.]

[Sidenote: General Assembly to provide registration laws.]

SEC. 3. Every person offering to vote shall be at the time a legally
registered voter as herein prescribed and in the manner hereafter
provided by law, and the General Assembly of North Carolina shall enact
general registration laws to carry into effect the provisions of this
article.

[Sidenote: Qualifications of elector to register and vote.]

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