1850 Schedule § 30

At the next general election, and at the same time when the votes of the electors shall be taken for the adoption or rejection of this constitution, an additional amendment to section one of Article seven, in the words following:

“Every colored male inhabitant possessing the qualifications required by the first section of the second article of the Constitution, shall have the rights and privileges of an elector,”

Shall be separately submitted to the electors of this State for their adoption or rejection, in form following, to wit: A separate ballot may be given by every person having the right to vote for the revised Constitution, to be deposited in a separate box. Upon the ballots given for the adoption of the said separate amendment shall be written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, the words “Equal suffrage to colored persons? Yes;” and upon all ballots given against the adoption of the said separate amendment, in like manner, the words “Equal suffrage to colored persons? No.” And on such ballots shall be written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, the words “ Constitution: Suffrage,” in such manner that such words shall appear on the outer side of such ballot when folded. If, at said election, a majority of all the votes given for and against the said separate amendment shall contain the words, “Equal suffrage to colored persons? Yes,” then there shall be inserted in the first section of the article, between the words “tribe” and “shall,” these words, “and every colored male inhabitant,” anything in the Constitution to the contrary notwithstanding.