Registration of persons entitled to vote without educational
qualification.]

[Sidenote: Permanent record.]

SEC. 4. Every person presenting himself for registration shall be able
to read and write any section of the Constitution in the English
language; and before he shall be entitled to vote he shall have paid, on
or before the first day of May of the year in which he proposes to vote,
his poll tax for the previous year as prescribed by Article V, sec. 1,
of the Constitution. But no male person who was on January 1, 1867, or
at any time prior thereto, entitled to vote under the laws of any State
in the United States wherein he then resided, and no lineal descendant
of any such person shall be denied the right to register and vote at any
election in this State by reason of his failure to possess the
educational qualifications herein prescribed: _Provided_, he shall have
registered in accordance with the terms of this section prior to
December 1, 1908. The General Assembly shall provide for the
registration of all persons entitled to vote without the educational
qualifications herein prescribed, and shall, on or before November 1,
1908, provide for making of a permanent record of such registration, and
all persons so registered shall forever thereafter have the right to
vote in all elections by the people in this State, unless disqualified
under section 2 of this article: _Provided_, such person shall have paid
his poll tax as above required.

[Sidenote: Amendment indivisible.]

SEC. 5. That this amendment to the Constitution is presented and adopted
as one indivisible plan for the regulation of the suffrage, with the
intent and purpose to so connect the different parts and to make them so
dependent upon each other that the whole shall stand or fall together.

[Sidenote: Elections by people and General Assembly.]

SEC. 6. All elections by the people shall be by ballot, and all by the
General Assembly shall be _viva voce_.

[Sidenote: Oath of office.]

SEC. 7. Every voter in North Carolina, except as in this article
disqualified, shall be eligible to office, but before entering upon the
duties of the office he shall take and subscribe the following oath:

"I, ____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and maintain
the Constitution and laws of the United States and the Constitution and
laws of North Carolina not inconsistent therewith, and that I will
faithfully discharge the duties of my office as