NuUTII CAROLINA. 





on the P- .On tho 1st of August an address to the people of the State, urging 



'IIL' forth in them to renter their names so far a* t 

 detail the regulation* to lie ol.-rrvcd in 



making the required reiri-tration. (>'., Soi-nr 



- Thi-. order directed the re-Uira- 



tion to commence at once. On the .'id of A n- 



.nor Worth, of North Carolina, issued 



to do so uniler the acts of Congress. 

 The registration of (nullified voters was pros- 

 ecuted without interruption until comi 

 about the middle of October, with th<: !' 

 ing result in tho various counties of the - 



::R OP REQISTEHED VOTERS IN THE SEVEBAL COUNTIES OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



On the 18th of October General Canby 

 issued an order providing for the holding of the 

 election in North Carolina. Tho prominent 

 features of the election order are the same as 

 in those of the other district commanders. (See 

 SOUTH CAUOLIXA.) 



The election was ordered to be held on the 

 19th and 20th of November, when a separate 

 vote was to be taken on the question of " con- 

 vention," or "no convention," and for the 

 choice of delegates to the convention in case 

 the election resulted in favor of holding one ; 

 120 delegates were allotted to the several rep- 

 resentative districts of the State. 



On tfie question of holding a convention for 

 the purpose of framing a new constitution, the 

 total vote was about 130,000, of which 60,000 

 \vere those of colored persons. The affirmative 

 vote wa- OV.T '.)0,000. Of the delegates chosen 

 170 a j, and 13 Conservatives or 



Independent*: 107 are white, and 13 colored 

 men. Tho convention met in 1868. 



On tho 22d of December, 18C6, the Legisla- 

 ture of North Carolina passed an act " granting 

 a general amnesty and pardon to all officers and 

 soldiers of the State of North Carolina, or of 

 the late Confederate States armies, or of the 

 United States, for offences committed against 

 tho criminal laws of the State of North Caro- 

 lina," when the alleged criminal acts were dono 

 in the discharge of duties imposed by laws then 

 in being or by orders emanating from a military 

 officer of the State, of the Confederacy, or of 

 the United States. General Canby found it 

 necessary, in consequence of prosecutions insti- 

 tuted in some of the courts of the State for acts 

 of war committed during the hostilities between 

 the two sections of the country, to issue an 

 order on the 27th of November, declaring the 

 construction and application of this law, and 

 requiring its strict observance in all IM- 

 persons in the civil or military service of the 

 United States during tho war. A second sec- 

 tion of the same order is as follows : 



