The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1865-08-17
By the Provisional Goye nor Of
the State Of South Ear01iaa.
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WHEREAS His Excellency President johnson has
issued his proclamation, appointing me benjamin
F. Perry Provisional Governor IN and for the
State of South Carolina, with power to prescribe
such rules and regulations as may be necessaryana
proper for. converting Convention of the State,
composed of delegates to be chosen by that portion
of the people of said State who are loyal to the
United States, for the purpose of altering or
amending the Constitution thereof; and with all
thority to,exercise within the limits of the State
all the powers necessary and properto enable such
loyal people to restore said State to its corsttl-
tional relations to the Federal Government, ard
to present such & Republican form Of State Cor
ernment as will entitie the State to the guarantee
of the United States therefor, and its people to
protection by the United States against invasion,
insurreetion and domestic violence:
Now, therefore, in obedience to the proclamation
of his Excellency Andrew Johnson, President OF
the United States, /, BENJAMIN E. PERRY, Pro-
visional Governor of the State.of South Caroline,
for the purpose of organizing Provisional Govern
ment in South Carolina, reforming the State Con-
sitution and restoring civil authority in said State,
under the Constitution and laws of the United
States, do hereby proclaim and declare that all
civil officers in South Carolina, who in Office
when the Civil Government of the State was sus-
pended, in May last, Except those arrested OF up
der prosecution for treason,) shall on taking the
oath of allegiance prescribed in the Presidents
Amnesty Proclamation of the 29th day Of May,
1865 resume the duties of their Offices and continte
to discharge them under the Provisional COVERT
ment till further appointments are made:
And do further proclaim, declare and make
KNOWN that it is the duty of all loyal citizens OF
The State of South Carolina to promptly go forward
and take the oath of allegiance to the United States,
before some magistrate or military oiilcer OF the
Federal Government, who may be qualified for adj
ministering oaths and such are hereby. authorized
to give certified copies thereof to the persons res
pectively by whom they were made. And such
magistrates or officers are hereby required, to /,
transmit the originals of such oaths, at as earlya
day as may be convenient, to the Department OF
State, in the city of Washington, D.. G.
And do further proclaim, declare and make
known, that the Managers Of Elections throughout
the State of South Carolina will hold an election
for members of State Convention Mt their respec-
tiyes precincts, on the FIRST MONDAY in SEP
TEAIBER NEXT according to the laws OF South |,
Carolina in force before the secession of the States
and that each Election District in the State shall
elect rs many members of the Convention rs the
said District has members of the House of Repre-
sentatiyes-the basis Misrepresentation being popu-
lation and taxation This will give one hundred
and twenty four members to the Conyention-a
number sufficiently large to represent every por-
tion of the State most fully.
Every loyal citizen who has taken the Amnesty
oath and not within the excepted classes IN the
Presidents Proclamation, will be entitled to vote
provided he was legal voter under the Constiiu-
ton as it stood prior 10 the secession of South Car
oina. And all who are within the excepted class .
es must take the oath and apply for a pardon, IN
order to entile them to vote or become members
of the Convention.
The members of the Convention thus electetbon
the first Monday in September next, are hereby
required to convene in the city OF Columbia, on
WEDNESDAY, the 18th day Of September. 1865,
for the purpose of altering and amending the pres
ent CONSTITUTION of South Carolina, or rcmodeiling
and making new one which will conform to the
great changes which have taken place in the State,
and be more i'll accordance with Republican princi-
pies and equality of representation.
And lido further proclaim and make known. that
the Constitution and all laws Of force in South Car
oina prior the secession Of the State are here
by made of force under the Provisional Govern
mcnt except wherein they may conflict with the
provisions Of this proclamation. And the Judges
and Chancelors of the State are hereby required
to exercise all the powers and perform oil the du-
ties which apperain to their respective Offices and
especially in criminal cases. 1t will be expected
of the Federal military authorities now in South
Carolina, to lend their authority to the civil officers
of the Provisional Governments, for the purpose OF
enforcing the laws and preserving the peace ana
good order of the State.
And do further command and enjoin all good
and lawful citizens of the State TO unite in enforc-
ing the laws and bringing to justice all disoricrly
persons, all plunderers, robbers and maara,,ders,
all vagrants and idle persons who are wandering
about without employment or any visihlegneans Of
supporting themselves.
it is also expected that ali former owners of
freed persons will be kind to them, and not turn off
the children or aged to perish ; and the freed men
and women are earnestly enjoined to make con-
tracts, just and fair, for remaining with their form
er owner.
In order to facilitate as much possible the ap-
plication for pardons under the excepted sections
of the Presidents Amnesty Proclamation, it is sta-
ted for information thatal applications must be
by petition stating the exception, and accompanied
with the oath prescribed. This petition must be
approved by the Provisional Governor. and then
forwarded to the President. The headquarters Of
the Provisional Governor will be at Greenville,
where all communications to him must be address,
ed.
The newspapers of this State will publish this
proclamation till the election for members Of the
Convention
In testimony whereof, have hersunto set my
hand and seal. Done at the town Of Green
r.. s. yillo, this Goth day ofJuly, iii the year of
our Lord 1865, and Of the independence of
the United States the ninetieth.
~ BE-. PERRY.
BY the Provisional Governor:
WILLIAM II. PERRY, Private Secretary.
Aug. 3, 1866