The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1865-10-05
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SIC. 6. The General Assembly shall not
Grant any title, of nobility, or hereditary
distinction, nor create-any Office, the ap-
nointment to which shall be for any longer
time than during good behavior.
Sect. The trial by.iury, as heretofore
used in this State, and the liberty of the
press, slallbe forever inviolably preserved:
But the General Assembly shall have
power to determine the number of per-
sons who shall constitute the jury in the
Inferior and District Courts.
SECS. The free exercise and enjoyment
of religious profession and worship, with
ont discrimination or preference, shall be
allowed; within this State, to all mankind;
PROVIDED, That the liberty OF conscience
hereby declared shall not be so construed
as to excuse acts of lcentiousncss, or JUS
tify practices Inconsistent with the peace
and safety of the State.
Sec. 9. The rights, privileges, immuni-
ties and estates. of both civil and religious
societies and of corporate bodies, shall re-
main as if the Constitution of this State
had not been altered Or amended.
Sec. 10. The rights of primogeniture
shall not be re-established, and there shall
not fail to be some legislative provision
for the equitable distribution Of the estates
OF intestates.
Sec. IL. The slaves in South Carolina
having been emancipated by the action of
the United States authorities, neither
slavery nor Involuntary servitude, except
as punishment for crime, whereof the
party shall have been duly convicted,
shall ever be re-established in this State.
ARTICLE X.
i, Sec. l. The General Assembly, when'
ever tax is laid upon land, shall at the
same time, impose a capitation tax, which
Z shall not be less upon each poll than one
fourth of the tax laid upon each hundred
dollars worth of the assessed value of the
land taxed; excepting, however, from the
operation of such capitation tax all such
classes cfpersons, as from disability or
otherwise, ought, in the Judgment of the
General Assembly, to be exempted.
ARTICLE XII.
SEC l. The business of the Treasury
shall be conducted by one Treasurer, ,+who
shall hold his Office and reside at the seat
of Government.
Sec 2. The Secretary Of State shall
hold his Office and reside at the seat Of
Government.
ARTICLE XII.
SEC. l. No Convention of the people
shall be called, unless by the concurrence
of two-thirds of the whole representation
in each House of the Genera! Assembly
SEC. 2. No part of this Constitution
shall be altered, unless bill to alter the
same shall have been read, on three sew
eral days, in the House of Representatives,,
and on three several days in the Senate,
and agreed to, at the second and third
readings, by thirds of the whole rep
resentation in each House of the General
Assembly; neither shall any alteration
take effect, until the bill. SO agreed to,
shall be published for three months pre-
vious to new election for members of
the House of Representatives; and, if the
alteration proposed-by the preceding Gen.
= eral Assembly shall be agreed to, by the
new General Assembly, IN their first ses-
sion, by the concurrence of two-thirds of
the whole representation in each House,
after the same shall have been read on
three several days in each; then and not
otherwise the same shall become part of
the Constitution.
Done in Conventional Columbia, in
the State of South Carolina, the twenty
seventh day of September, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-fve.
D. L. WARDLAW,
President of the Convention.
Attest: JOHN T. SLOAN,
Clerk of the Convention.
A FUNNY. M1srAKE.-The Springfield
(Mass:) Republican is responsible for the
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