JOURNAL

OF THE

CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION

OF 1875.

FIRST DAY.

MONDAY, September 6, 1875.

By virtue of an act of Assembly ratified on the nineteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy five, a Convention of the people of North Carolina met in the hall of the House of Representatives, at the city of Raleigh, to-day, Monday, September the sixth, A. D. 1875, for the purpose of considering and adopting amendments to the Constitution of the State.

At 12 M., the delegates were called to order by his Honor Thomas Settle, one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court.

The Chair designated Messrs. Young of Granville, French of New Hanover, Cunningham of Person, and Bennett of Anson, to assist him in the discharge of his duties.

The delegates designated came forward and took their seats at the Clerk's desk.

Mr. Tourgee offered the following protest :

We, the undersigned, delegates elect to this Convention, protest against the validity of the oath prescribed in the act of