Journal of the Convention, called by the freemen of North-Carolina, to amend the constitution of the state [electronic resource] : which assembled in the city of Raleigh, on the 4th of June, 1835, and continued in session until the 11th day of July thereafter.
Convention called in North Carolina to look at several issues in the previously approved Constitution for the state. Some of the issues were Representation of the districts based on the Census of 1820 and 1830, denial of voting for free African Americans, Mulattos or others of mixed blood to the fourth generation, tax on slaves and free African Americans as well as other issues and rewording of amendments. Each vote is followed by the names and counties of who voted yea or nay on an issue.
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- Edition: Electronic edition
- Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002.
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- General Note:
- Text transcribed by Apex Data Services, Inc. Images scanned by Matthew Kern. Text encoded by Apex Data Services, Inc., Melissa Meeks, and Natalia Smith.This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.Title from electronic title page (viewed Nov. 6, 2002).
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- Transcribed from: Journal of the Convention, called by the freemen of North-Carolina, to amend the constitution of the state, which assembled in the city of Raleigh, on the 4th of June, 1835, and continued in session until the 11th day of July thereafter. Raleigh : Printed by J. Gales & Son, Printers to the Convention, 1835. 106, [2] p. ; 23 cm. Shaw & Shoemaker, 33403.
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- Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this title.
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