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white polls, (5) providing for biennial instead of annual sessions 

 of the General Assembly, (6) providing for popular election of the 

 Governor, (7) amending the section of the Constitution of 1776 im- 

 posing a religious test for office holders, (8) providing procedures 

 for the removal of certain state officers for disability or mis- 

 conduct, (9) providing a procedure for the amendment of the Con- 

 stitution in future, and (10) with respect to several other topics. 

 The statute expressly provided 



"that if a majority of voters, at the election first 

 directed to be held by this act, shall be found for con- 

 vention, it shall be considered and understood, that 

 the people by their vote as aforesaid, have conferred 

 on the delegates to said Convention, the povjer and 

 authority, to make alterations and amendments in the 

 existing Constitution of the State, in the particulars 







herein enumerated or any of them, but in no others," 

 To clinch the matter, every delegate to the convention was required, 

 before taking his seat, to swear that he vjould not, "either di- 

 rectly or indirectly evade or disregard, the duties enjoined or 

 the limits fixed to this convention, by the people of North Carolina 

 as set forth in the act of the General Assembly" providing for the 

 calling of the convention. Finally, it was required that the amend- 

 ments proposed by the convention be submitted to the people for 

 their ratification before becoming effective. 



Immediately the delegates to the Convention of 1835 assembled 



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