Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-10-12
G0NSTITITION on S. CAROLINA.

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rolina, 6y our Delegates IN Conoentso1s
met, do oTdass and establish thss Con-
s.isstioa for dhe Government Of the sad
State: ,si.
ARTICLE I. ..@.
- SEc11oN l. The Legislative authority OF
this State shall be vested in q General As
sembiy, which shall consist of a Senate ana
arHouse Of Representatives.
: SEcTIoN 2. The House of Representa-
ayes shan be composed Of Members chosen
by ballot, every second year, by the citizens
uf this State, qualified as in this Constitu.
ton is provided.
SECTION 8. Each Judicial District in the
State shall constitute one Election District,
except Charleston District, which shall be
divided into two Election Districts, one
consisting Of the late Parishes of st. Philip
and st. Michael, to be designated the Flee
tion District of Charleston; the other con-
aisting Of all that part of the Judicial Dis.
trict, which Is without the limits of the said
Parishes, to be known as the Election Dis
trict Of Berkeley.
SECTION 4. The boundaries of the sew
ersl Judicial and Election Districts shall
remain as they are nov established.
SECTION s. The House of Represents
,tiyes shall consist Of one hundred and twen-
ty four Members, to be apportioned among
the several Election Districts of the State,
occording 20 the number of white inhabi.
tants oontsinsd in each, and the amount of
all taxes raised by the General Assembly,
whether direct or indirect, or whatever spe-
cies paid in each, deducting therefrom all
taxes paid on account Of property held in
any other District, and adding thereto all
tsxes elsewhere paid en- account of proper
ty held in such District. An enumeration
Of the white Inhabitants, for this purpose,
was made in the year one thousand eight
hundred and fifty nine, and shall be made
in the course ofevery tenth year thereafter,
in such manner as shall be, BY law, direct.
ed; and Representatives shall be assigned
TO the different Districts in the above-men-
toned proportion, by Act of the General
Assembly at the session Immediately sue
ceeding every enumeration: Prouided, that
until the apportionment, which shall be
made upon the next enumeration, shall take
effect the representation of the several E.
lection Districts, as herein constituted, shall
continue as assigned at the last apportion.
ment, each District which has been hereto
fore divided into smaller Districts, known
ss Parishes, having the aggregate number
of Representatives which the Parishes here
tofore embraced within its limits have had
since that apportionment, the Represents
tive to which the Parish of All Saints has
been heretofore entitled, being, during this
interval, assigned to Horny Election District
SECTION 8. If the enumeration herein d.
rected shall not be made in the course of
the year appointed for the purpose, it shall
be the duty Of the Governor to have it sf-
fectsd as soon thereafter as shall be practi.
cable.
SECTION Z. In assigning Representatives
to the several Districts, the General Assem-.
bly, shall allow one Representative for every
sixty.second part of the; whole number of
white inhabitants in the State, and one Rep
resentati7e also for every sixty.second part
of the whole taxes raised by the General
Assembly. There shall be further allowed
one Representative for such fractions Of the
sixty,second part of the white Inhabitants,
and Of the sixty-second part of the taxes,
as when added together from unit.
SECTION s. All taxes upon property, real
or personal, shall be laid upon the actual
value Of the property taxed, as the same
shall be sscersained BY an assessment made
for the purpose Of laying such tax. In the
first spportionment which shall be made
under this Constitution. the amount of taxes
shall be estimated from the average of the
two years next preceding such apportion.
ment; but in every subsequent apportion.
ment, from the average Of the ten years
then NEXT precedine.
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