SECTION II.
The thirtysecond section of the constitution shall be amended to read as follows: No person who shall deny the being of God, or the truth of the Christian religion, or the divine authority of the Old or New Testament, or who shall hold religious principles incompatible with the freedom or safety of the State, shall be capable of holding any office or place of trust or profit in the civil department within this State.
SECTION III.
1. Capitation tax shall be equal throughout the State upon all individuals subject to the same.
2. All free males over the age of twentyone years, and under the age of fortyfive years, and all slaves over the age of twelve years, and under the age of fifty years, shall be subject to capitation tax, and no other person shall be subject to such tax; provided that nothing herein contained shall prevent exemptions of taxable polls as heretofore prescribed by law in cases of bodily infirmity.
SECTION IV.
No person who shall hold any office or place of trust or profit under the United States, or any department thereof, or under this State, or any other state or government, shall hold or exercise any other office or place of trust or profit under the authority of this State, or be eligible to a seat in either house of the General Assembly: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall extend to officers in the militia or justices of the peace.
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Ratified in convention, this eleventh day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirtyfive.
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NATH'L. MACON, Pres. |
- Edmund B. Freeman, Secretary of the Convention.
- Joseph D. Ward, Assistant Secretary.vol. i. 4
