The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-11-29
AN ACT
To Provide for the Calling of Convention OF
the People of this State.

src / Be il enacted By the Senotc and House
of Penreseufafipcs, no,v met and sitting in General
1ssem5lv, and by the authority ot hc same, That a
Convention of the people of the State of South
Corolna is hereby ordained, to be assembled in the
civ of Columbia, on Monday, the seventeenth day
of December, in the year Of our Lord one thousand
ciob, hundred and sixty, for the purpose OF taking
into consideration the dangers lncluent 10 the po-
s;t;on of the State in the Federal Union, estab-
l;sbcd Inv the Constitution of the United States,
o,d the measures which may be necessary and
nroncr for providing against the same, and there
mon Tn take care that the Commonwealth of South
Carolina shall suffer no detriment
Src. .. That on the sixth day of December, in
tho wear of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty, the Managers of Elections for the seve-
raj Districts in the State shall, after giving public
notice as in cases of elections for members of the
Lcoislaturc open the polls and hold elections in
their respective Districts for Delegates to the said
Convention, in all respects in the same manner
and form, and at the same places, as elections are
now conducted for members of the Legislature
And all persons who are qualified and entitled, by
tbe 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 Conyen-
ton and in case of any vacancy occurring by
DEATH resignation or removal from the State or
refusal to serve of any person elected Delegate
TO the said Convention, the presiding officer 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
po and hold an election to fill such vacancy, rs
in cases for the election Of members of the Lcgis-
laturc that the Managers in the several Election
Districts and Parishes, shall meet on Friday, the
7th day of December, 1860, count the votes and
declare the election
q D;cfrict oun,ou M
the State shall be entitled TO elect and send to the
said Convention number of Delegates equal TO
the whole number of Senator's and Representatives
which such District is now entitled to send to the
Legislature; and the Delegates to the said Con-
ycntion shall be entitled TO the same freedom Of ar
rest in going TO- returning from, and whilst IN at
tendance on, said Convention, as is extended to the
members of the Legislature.
SEC. 4. That all free white male citizens CT this
State o: the age of wcnty-one years and up
wards, and who are entitled 10 vote for members OF
the State Legislature, shall be eligible to scat in
the said Convention.
In the Senate House, the thirteenth day of No
ycmber in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty, and in the eighty-ffth
year of the sovereignty and independence of the
United States of America
WILLIAM D. PORTER,
President of the Senate.
JAMES SlMONS,
Speaker House Representatives.
Resolrca, That the Clerks of the Senate and
House of Representatives be, and arc hereby in
struccd to publish the "Act to provide. for the
calling of Convention of tho people of this State,
in one newspaper in each Election District i'll the
State once week. until the day of election of the
DELEGATES TO said Convention and that it is the
sense of this General Assembly that the Managers
of Elections are bound to proceed to give the nsli-
nj notice of election, and to hold the same as di-
rectcd by said Act, without awaiting further i'll
structcns.
JOHN T. SLOAN, c. II. Il.
Nov. %, 1860 Is I'd