Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-11-22
AN ACT
To Provide for the Calling Of a Convention
OF h People OF this State.

Sec. l. Be it enacted By the Senate and House
of Representatives, nou met and sitting in General
assembly, and By the authority of the same. That
a Convention of the people OF the State of South
Carolina is hereby ordained. to be assembled in
the City of Columbia, on Monday, the 18th day
of December, in the year of our Lord, one thous
and eight hundred and sixty, for the purpose OF
taking into consideration the dangers incident
to the position of the State in the Federal Union,
established by the Constitution of the United
States, and the measures which may be necessa-
ry and proper for providing against the same
and thereupon to take care that the Common
wealth of South Carolina shall suffer no detrl
meut.
Sec. 2. That on the sixth day of December,
in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hun
dred and sixty, the Managers of Elections Tor
the several Districts in the State shall, after CIV
inc public notice as in cases of elections for mem
beers of the Legislature, open the polls and hold
elections in their respective Districts Tor Dele
gates TO the said Convention, in all respects in
the sam manner and form, and at the same
places, rs elections are now conducted Tor mem
bers of the Legislature. And all persons who
are qualified and entitled, by the Constitution
and laws of this State, to vote for members OF
the LEGISLATURE, shall be qualified and entitled
to vote for said Delegates to said Convention
and in case of any vacancy occurring, by death,
resignation or removal from the State, or refusal
TO serve of any person elected a Delegate to the
said Convention, the presiding othcer OF the
said Convention shall issue his writ authorizing
and requiring the Managers of Elections in the
Election Districts in which such vacancy may
have occurred, after giving due notice thereof,
to open a poll and hold an election to fill such
5000 a., ;, o,eao fnr tho a1nntiop nf memhprS
to the Legislature; that the Managers in the
several Election Districts and Parishes, shall
meet on Friday, the 7th day Of December, 1860,
count the votes ard declare the election.
SEC. 3. That each Election District through
out the State shall be entitled to elect and send
to the said Convention a number of Delegates
equal to the whole number of Senators and Rep,
resentatives which such District is now entitled
to send to the Legislature and the Delegates to
the said Convention shall be entitled to the same
freedom of arrest in going to, returning from,
and whilst in attendance on, said Convention, as
is extended to the members of the Legislature.
SEC. 4. That all free white male citizens OF
this State, of the age of twenty-one years and
upwards, and who are entitled to vote for mem
bers of the State Legislature, shall be eligible
10 a seat in the said Convention.
In the Senate House, the thirteenth day of No.
vember, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty, and in the eighty
fifth year of the sovereignty and independence
of the United States of America.
WILLIAM D.. PORTER,
President of the Senate.
JAMES SIMONS,
Speaker House Representatives.
Resolyed, That the Clerks of the Senate and
House of Representatives be, and are hereby,
instructed to publish the Act to provide for the
calling of a Convention of the people Of this
State" in one newspaper in each Election Dis
trict in the State, once a week, until the day Of
election of the Delegates to the said Convention
and tina, it is the sense of this General Assembly
that the Managers Of Elections are bound to
proceed to give the usual notice of election, and
to hold the same, as directed by said Act, with
out awaiting further instructions.
VIM. E. MARTIN, G. S.
JOHN T. SLOAN, C. H. R.
Nov % Al 81