Constitution of the State of North Carolina and Copy of the Act of the General Assembly Entitled Part 12

Private laws; 2 11-12

Privileges, exclusive, none; 1 7

Property, controversies at law about; 1 19 Deprivation of, except by law, wrong; 1 17 Devoted to education; 9 4 Exemptions from taxation; 5 5 _Feme sole_ not liable for husband's debts; 10 6 Qualification, none; 1 22

Prosecution, criminal; 1 11

Protest, by whom and when made; 2 17

Public debt, increase of, restricted, etc.; 5 4 What bonds declared invalid; 1 6

Public money, how drawn; 14 3

Public schools, general a.s.sembly to provide for; 9 2

Punishments, penal inst.i.tutions and public charities; 11 Cruel or unusual; { 1 14 {14 1

Qualification and election of members of general a.s.sembly, each house judge of; 2 22

Rebellion, debt in aid of, not to be paid; 7 13

Recurrence to fundamental principles; 1 29

Refuge, houses of; 11 5

Register of deeds; 7 1

Registration of electors; 6 2

Religious liberty; 1 26 Scruples against bearing arms; 12 1

Removal of judges; 4 31 Of clerks; 4 32

Representation and taxation; 1 23

Reprieves; 3 6

Retrospective laws; 1 32

Revenue; { 2 14 { 5

Right of a.s.semblage; 1 25 Jury; 1 13

Right of secession, none; 1 4 To bear arms; 1 24 To suspend laws, injurious; 1 9

Rights, declaration of; 1 Of men; { 1 1 { 1 37

Salaries and fees, general a.s.sembly to regulate; 4 18

Schools, attendance of children; 9 15 County, divided into districts; 9 3 Fund; 9 5 Provided by legislation; 9 2 Races separate; 9 2

Seal of state; 3 16

Search warrants without evidence, wrong; 1 15

Seat of government at Raleigh; 14 6

Secession, no right of; 1 4

Secretary of state, duties of; 3 13

Senate, presiding officer; 2 19 _Pro tem_. speaker, when elected; 2 20

Senators, number of; 2 3 Other senatorial officers; 2 20 President of; 2 19 Qualifications; for 2 7 Regulating senatorial districts; 2 4

s.e.xes separated in confinement; 11 6

Sheriff and coroner; 4 24

Slavery prohibited; 1 33

Societies, secret political, dangerous; 1 25

Soldiers, how quartered; 1 36

Solicitor, how elected; 4 23

Special courts; 4 14

State boundaries; 1 34 Claims against; 4 9 Internal government; 1 3

Statistics, department of; 3 17

Suffrage and eligibility to office; 6

Superintendent of public instruction; 3 13 Reports of county school fund to be made; 9 5

Superior court, open at all times except for jury trials; 4 22 Clerk, his election; 4 16 Districts; 4 10 Judges, election and term; 4 21 Residence; 4 11 Rotation; 4 11 Solicitor for each district; 4 23 Special term; 4 12 Term; 4 17 Vacancy; 4 29 Transaction of business; 4 22

Supreme court, clerk; 4 15 Jurisdiction; 4 8-9 Justices; 4 6 Election and terms of; 4 21 Terms of; 4 7

Surveyor; 7 1

Suspending laws without consent of representatives, not to be exercised; 1 9

Taxation, _ad valorem_ and uniform; 5 3 And revenue; { 5 { 1 23

Taxation, except for necessary expenses, not levied by county, city or town without a.s.sent of majority of voters; 7 7 Levied by county commissioners; 5 6 Of county to be ad valorem; 7 9 Of purchases and sales retrospectively not to be pa.s.sed; 1 32 Property, exemptions from; 5 5