The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1865-10-05
THE CONSTITUTION
OF THE
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
SEPTEMBER 27, 1865.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
SEPTEMBER 27, 1865.
We, the people of the State of South Caro-
Tina, By our Delegates in Convention
met, do ordain and establish this Consti
tuition for the Government of said State
ARTICLE I.
SECTION l. The Legislative authority
of this State shall be vested in a Genera
Assembly, which shall consist of Sen
ate and House of Representatives.
SECTION 2. The House of Representa-
tives shall be composed of Me-abers cho
sen by ballot, every second year, by the
citizens of this State, qualified as in this
Constitution is provided.
SEcT1oN2. Each Judicial District i'll the
State shall constitute one Election Dis
trict, except Charleston District, which
shall be divided into two Election Dis
4ricts, one consisting of the latc Parishes
of st. Philip and st. Michael, to be desig-
mated tho Election District Of Charleston;
tie other consisting of all that part OF
the audici;d District, which is without
the limits of said Parishes, to be known
as the Election District ,f Berkeley.
SECTION l. The boundaries of the sew
eral Judicial and Election Districts shall
remain as they are now established.
SEcroS S. The House of Representa-
tives shall consist of one hundred and
.twenty-four members, to be apportioncd
among the several Election Districts Of
the State, according to tho number of
white inhabitants contained in each, and
The amount of all taxes raised by the Gen
erai Assembly, whether direct or indirect,
or of whatever species paid in cach,. de-
ducting t..ercfom all taxes paid on ac-
count. of property held in any other Dis
trict. and adding. thereto all taxes else
where paid ON account of property held
in such District. An enumeration of the
white inhabitants, for this purpose, was
made in the year one thousand eight hun
drcd ard fifty-niue, and shall be made in
The course of every tenth year thereafter,
in such manner as shall be, BY law, direc-
ted; and Representatives shall be assign
ed to the different Districts in the above
mentioned proportion, by Act of the Gen
eral Assembly at the session Immediately
succeeding every enumeration; Provided,
that until the apportionment, which shall
be made upon the next enumeration, shall
take effect, the representation of the sew
er;ll Election Districts, as herein constitu-
ted. shall continue as assigned at tho last
apportionment, each District which has
been heretofore divided into smaller Dis
tricts, known as Parishes, having. the ag,-
ercgate number OF Representatives which
the Parishes heretofore embraced within
its-limits have had since that apportion-
ment, the Representatives to which the
Parish of All Saints. has been heretofore
entitled, being, during this interval, as
sieucd to Horny Election District,
SECTION 6. If the enumeration herein
directed shall not be mado in the course
of the year appointed for the purpose II
shall be the duty of the Governor to have
# affected as soon thereafter as shall be
n,ectioable.
SEcr1oN7. In assigning Representatives
to the several Districts the General AS
sembly shall allow one Representativ'
for every sixty-second part Of the whole
number of white inhabitants iii the State
and onc Representative also for every
sixty-second part of the whole taxes rails
cd by the General Assembly. There
shall be further allowed one Representa-
tive for such fractions of the sixty-secon'
part of the white inhabitants, and of tn
sixty-second part of the taxes, as whcl
added together form unit. :.
SECTION s. All taxes upon property
real or personal, shall be laid upon the ae
tnal value of the property taxed, as tn
same shall be ascertained by an assess
ment made for the purpose Of. laying sue
tax In the first apportionmcnt whlc
eboll be made under this Constitution, tn
amount of taxes shall be estimated fro'
the average of the two years next pre-
eeeding such apportionmens; but in ev
~ subsequent apportionment, from tt
average of the ten years then next pr
ceeding. ..ont
Representatives., any Election Distrl