Excerpt from The Transition of North Carolina From Colony to Commonwealth This monograph is designed to show the manner in which a Commonwealth government was substituted for a provin cial government in North Carolina. The conditions that operated to produce this change and the spirit in which it was effected are considered in the new light thrown upon these subjects by the publication of the Colonial Records. The monograph is essentially a study in the constitutional history of the State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.