INDEX TO STATE CONSTITUTION

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Abuses in assessments and contracting debts by municipal corporations, general assembly to prevent;[8]4
Actions at law and equity suits, no distinction;[4]1
Pending when constitution took effect;[4]20
Acts of general assembly, style of;[2]21
Levying taxes, must state object;[5]7
Agriculture, department of;[3]17
In connection with university;[9] 14
Alimony, general assembly does not secure;[2]10
Allegiance to U. S. Government;[1]5
Amendments;[13]
Do not vacate existing offices;[4]33
Answer to criminal charge;[1]12
Apportionment of senators and representatives;[2]4-5-6
Arms, right to bear;[1]24
Article seven, general assembly may modify or repeal certain sections;[7]14
Assemblage, right of;[1]25
Attorney-general advises executive;[3]14
Duties of;[3]13
Auditor, duties of;[3]13
Bail, excessive;[1]14
Ballot, elections to be by;[6]3
Bills of general assembly, read three times;[2]23
Blind provided for;[11]10
Board of charities;[11]7
Boundaries of state;[1]34
Capitation tax, application of proceeds from;[5]2
Exempts;[5]1
Capital punishment;[11]2
Charities, public;[11]
Deaf-mutes and the blind;[11] 10
Idiots and inebriates;[11]9
Provision for orphans and the poor;[11]7
Self-supporting, as far as possible;[11] 14
Cities organized by legislation;[8]4
Citizenship, restoration to;[2]11
Civil and criminal actions;[4]1
Claims against the state;[4]9
Clerk of superior court, election of;[4]10
Removal for inability;[4] 32
Clerk of Supreme court;[4]15
Terms of office of;[4] 17
Removal of;[4] 32
Commutations;[3]6
Compulsory education, general assembly may provide;[9]15
Concealed weapons, carrying not justified;[1]24
Constitution, how changed;[13]2
Controversies at law about property;[1]19
Convention, how called;[13]
Convict labor;[11]1
Coroner and sheriff;[4]24
Corporations, municipal;[7]
Charters remain in force till legally changed;[7] 12
Power of general assembly over;[7] 12
Corporations other than municipal;[8]
Debts of, how secured;[8]2
Definition of;[8]3
Under general laws;[8]1
Correction, houses of;[11]4
Council of state;[3]14
Counsel allowed defendant;[1]11
County commissioners, election and duty of;[7]1-2
Counties, commissioners divide, into districts;[7]3
Districts have corporate powers as townships;[7]4
Majority of voters necessary to levy taxes, etc.;[7]7
Money, how drawn from its treasury;[7]8
Officers enter on duty, when;[7] 10
Of townships;[7]5
School districts;[9]3
Fund;[9]5
Taxes to be ad valorem;[7]9
Township trustees assess property;[7]6
County treasurer;[7]1
Courts to be open;[1]35
Kinds of;[4]2
Criminal charges, answer to;[1]12
Criminal and civil actions;[4]1
Courts for cities and towns;[4] 14
Prosecutions;[1] 11
Deaf-mutes provided for;[11]10
Death punishment;[11]2
Debt does not affect homestead;[10]3
County, city or town cannot contract, except by majority of qualified voters;[7]7
Imprisonment for;[1] 16
In aid of rebellion, void;[7] 13
Debt, restrictions upon increase of public, etc.;[5]4
What bonds declared invalid;[1]6
Declaration of rights;[1]
Department of agriculture;[3]17
Divorce, general assembly does not grant;[2]17
Disqualification for office;[{ 6]5
[{14]7
Dueling disqualifies;[14]2
Education, board of;[9]8
Officers;[9]9
Expenses;[9] 13
County school fund;[9]5
Encouraged;[{ 9]1
[{ 1] 27
First session of;[9] 11
Power of;[9] 10
Property devoted to;[9]4-5
Quorum;[9] 12
Election of officers by general assembly, viva voce;[2]9
Elections, by people and general assembly;[6]3
Contested, returns of;[3]3
Free;[1] 10
Frequent;[1] 28
Electors, oath of office of;[6]4
Qualifications of;[6]1
Registration of;[6]2
Eligibility to office;[6]
Emoluments, exclusive, none;[1]7
Hereditary;[1] 30
Entails to be regulated;[2]15
Enumeration of rights, not to impair others retained by people;[1] 37
Equity suits and actions at law, distinction abolished;[4]1
Pending when constitution took effect;[4] 20
Evidence against himself, criminal not compelled to give;[1]11
Executive, attorney-general advises;[3]14
Department of;[3]
Distinct;[1]8
Officers;[3]1
Compensation;[3] 15
Duties;[3] 13
Reports of;[3]7
vTerms of office of;[3]1
Seal of state;[3] 16
Vacancy in, how filled;[3] 13
Exemption;[10]1
By reason of military duty, etc.;[12]4
Property of feme covert not liable for husband's debts;[10]6
Ex post facto laws;[1]32
Extra session of general assembly;[3]9
Feigned issues abolished;[4]1
Feme sole, property of, not liable for husband's debts;[10]6
Fines, excessive;[1]14
Freedom of the press;[1]20
Fundamental principles, frequent recurrence to;[1]29
General Assembly, acts, style of;[2]21
Article seven may be modified or repealed by;[7] 14
Bills and resolutions read three times;[2] 23
Compulsory education may be enforced by;[9] 15
Election by;[6]3
Entails regulated by;[2] 15
Extra sessions;[{ 2] 28
[{ 3]9
Journals kept;[2] 16
Protests entered on;[2] 17
Members of;[2] 24
Assemble when;[2]2
Election for, when held;[2] 27
Office a disqualification;[14]7
Terms commence with election;[2] 25
Vacancies, how filled;[2] 13
Municipal corporations controlled by;[7] 14
Names, personal not changed by;[2] 11
Officers of, election, viva voce;[2]9
Pay of;[2] 28
President of senate;[2] 19
Speaker of house;[2] 18
Powers of;[2] 22
In relation to divorce and alimony;[2] 10
Representation apportioned by;[2]4-5
Revenue;[2] 14
Schools provided by;[9]2
University to be maintained by;[9]6-7
Yeas and nays;[2] 14-26
Government, allegiance to U. S.;[1]5
Internal, of state;[1]3
Origin of;[1]2
Seat of, remains in Raleigh;[14]6
Governor, commands militia;[3]8
Commutations, pardons, reprieves;[3]6
Governor, compensation[3]15
Duties of[3] 12
Extra sessions called by[3]9
Impeachment of[3] 12
Justices of peace appointed by, when[7] 11
Lieutenant, qualification of[3]2
Oath of office[3]4
Officers appointed by[{ 3] 10
[{14]5
Qualification of[3]2
Residence of[3]5
Vacancy in office of[3] 12
Habeas corpus[1]21
Hereditary emoluments[1]30
Homestead and exemption[10]2
Benefit of widow in[10]5
Exempted from debt[10]3
Laborer's lien attaches[10]4
Privy examination of wife to dispose of[10]8
House of correction[11]4
Orphans[11]8
Refuge[11]5
House of Representatives, representatives, apportionment[2]5
Officers of[2] 18
Term begins when[2] 25
Qualification for[2]8
Ratio of[2]6
Husband can insure life for benefit of family[10]7
Idiots provided for[11]9
Immigration, department of[3]17
Impeachment[4]4
Court of[4]3
Of governor[3] 12
Imprisonment for debt[1]16
Except by law, wrong[1] 17
Indictments for crimes committed before constitution took effect[14]1
Inebriates[11]9
Inferior courts[4]12
Officers of[4] 30
Insane provided for[11]10
Institutions, charitable[11]
Penal[11]
Public, annual reports from[3]7
Self-supporting far as possible[11] 11
Sexes to be separated[11]6
Instruction, superintendent of public[3]13
Intermarriage of whites and negroes prohibited[14]8
Internal government of state[1]3
Issues of fact, by whom tried and how waived[4]13
Judges, election, terms of, etc.[4]21
Fees, salaries, emoluments[4] 18
Removal of, for inability[4] 31
Residence of[4] 11
Judicial Department[4]
Districts for superior courts[4] 10
General assembly not to deprive of jurisdiction[4] 12
Powers, division of[4]2
Term of first officers under constitution[4] 26
Vacancies[4] 25
Judicial remedy allowed all[1]35
Judiciary distinct;[1]8
Jurisdiction, courts inferior to supreme;[4]12
Justices of the peace;[4] 27
Supreme court;[4]8
Jury, right of;[1]13
Sacred and inviolable;[1] 19
Trial by, waived;[4] 13
Justices of the peace, governor appoints when;[7]11
Jurisdiction of;[4] 27
Vacancies in office;[4] 28
Laborers' and mechanics' lien;[14]4
Attaches homestead;[10]4
Law of the land, no person imprisoned, or deprived of life, etc., but by;[1] 17
Laws, ex post facto and retrospective;[1]32
Private, thirty days' notice before passage;[2] 12
What in force;[4] 19
Legislative, distinct;[1]8
Two branches of;[2]1
Legislature provides for organizing towns, etc.;[8]4
Trials other than jury;[1] 13
Legitimation, general assembly can pass general laws for;[2]11
Liberty, deprivation of, except by law;[1]17
Religious;[1] 26
Restraint of, remedied;[1] 18
Warrants without evidence, dangerous to;[1] 15
Lien of laborers and mechanics;[14]4
Lieutenant-governor, president of senate, duties of;[3]11
When governor;[3] 12
Literary fund, board of education to succeed to rights of;[9]10
Marriages between whites and negroes forbidden;[14]8
Married woman, husband can insure life for benefit of;[10]7
Privy examination of, to dispose of homestead;[10]8
Property of, not liable for husband's debts;[10]6
Mechanics' lien;[14]4
Men, equality, rights of;[1]1
Militia;[{1]24
[{12]
Exemptions from duty;[12]4
Governor commands;[{ 3]8
[{12]2
Organization of;[12]2
Who liable to bear arms;[12]1
Money, how drawn from state treasury;[4]1
County or township treasury;[7]8
Monopolies are injurious;[1]31
Municipal corporations;[7]
Cannot contract debt except by majority of qualified voters;[7]7
Charters remain in force till changed;[7] 12
General assembly to provide for organization of, taxation, etc., by;[8]4
Power of general assembly over;[7] 14
Names, personal, how changed[2]11
Normal school, to be maintained by general assembly at university;[9] 14
Oath of governor;[3]4
Oath of members of general assembly;[2]24
Oath of office;[6]4
Office, cannot hold two;[14]7
Disqualification;[6]5
Dueling disqualifies for;[14]2
Eligibility to;[6]
Qualification, property, none;[1] 22
Officers, county;[{ 7]1
[{ 7] 10
First elected;[4] 26
What, appointed by governor;[{ 3] 10
[{14]5
Orphans, houses for;[11]8
Provision for;[11]7
Pardons;[3]6
Peace, soldiers quartered in time of;[1]36
Penitentiary;[11]3
Convict labor;[11]1
Self-supporting as far as possible;[11] 11
Sexes separated;[11]6
People, right of, to assemble together;[1]25
Perpetuities, injurious;[1]31
General assembly shall prevent;[2] 15
Political power and government;[1]2
Societies in secret dangerous;[1] 25
Poor, provision for;[11]7
Power of general assembly;[2]22
To suspend laws injurious;[1]9
Powers, executive, judicial and legislative, distinct;[1]8
Judicial, division of;[4]2
Press, freedom and abuse of;[1]20
Principles, recurrence to fundamental;[1]29
Prisoners, health and comfort secured;[11]6
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 assembly to provide for;[9]2
Punishments, penal institutions and public charities;[11]
Cruel or unusual;[{ 1] 14
[{14]1
Qualification and election of members of general assembly, 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 assemblage;[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 assembly 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
Sexes 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 assent 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 passed;[1] 32
Property, exemptions from;[5]5
Taxes, acts to levy, to state object;[5]7
Towns, etc., organized by legislation;[8]4
Townships, officers of;[7]5
Treason against state;[4]5
Treasurer, duties of;[3]13
University, agricultural department of, mechanics,
mining and normal instruction connected with;		[9] 14
Benefits of;[9]7
Election of trustees;[9]6
General assembly shall maintain;[9]7
Maintenance of;[9]6
Property devoted to;[9]7
Vacancies in general assembly;[2]13
Other;[{ 3] 12-13
[{ 4] 25-28
{29
Vagrants, houses of correction for;[11]4
Warrants without evidence injurious;[1]15
Whites and negroes cannot intermarry;[14]8
Separated in schools;[9]2
Widow, homestead benefits;[10]5
Yeas and nays, when entered;[2]14-26