The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1865-11-04
SATURDAY MORNING, NOV, 4, 1865


required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor
cruel punishments inflicted.
SECTION g. The General Assembly shall
not grant any title OF nobility, or heredi..
ry distraction, nor create any office, the ap-
pointment TO which shall be for any longer
time than during good behavior.
SECTION 2. I he trial by jury, as hereto
fore used in this Stale, and the liberty of
the press. snail be forever and nyiolabiy
preserved, but the General Assembly shall
have power to determine the nu.ubcr of
persons who shall constitute the jury in the
Inferior and District Courts.
SECTION 8. The free exercise and enjoy.
ment of religious profession aud worship.
without discrimination or preference, shall
be allowed, within this State. to all man
kind ProUaied. That the liberty OF con.
science hereby declared shall not be 50 con.
slrued as to excuse acts OF licsntiousness,
or Justify practices inconsistent with the
peace and safely of the State.
SECIGsN 9. The rights, privileges. immu.
mites aud estates Of both civil and RELIGIOUS
societies aud of cooperate bodies, shall re
main rs if the Constitution Of this State
had not been altered or amended.
SECTION 10. The rights of primorcui-
ture shall noe be re established, and there
Is
ion for the equitable distribution Of the
estates OF intestates.
Section IL. Tho sl..yes oc South Caro-
! lima having been smsncipatei by the action
Of the United States aathoritics, pei,ber
slavery nor lnvolnutary seLyitude, except as
n punishment for crime, whereof the party
shall have been duly convicted, shall ever
\ be re-cstablished in this State.
ARTICLE Y.
SECTION /. The General Assembly when.
ever tax is laid upon land, shall, at the
same lime, impose capi;ation tax, which
shall not be less upon each psll than one,
four;h.sf The tax laid upon each hund red
dollars worth OF the assessed val7e Of the
land taxed I; excepting, however, from the
operation Of such sapitation tax all such
classes Of persons, AS frsm disability or
| otherwise, ought, In the General Assembly
| TO be exempted.
ARTICLE XII.
SECTION l. The business Of the Treasp.
| ry shall be csnducted by one Treasurer,
who shall hold his office AMI reside Mt the
| seat OF Government.
SECTION 2. The Secretary Of State shall
hold his Office and reside at the seat of
| Government.
| ARTICLE XII.
SECTION I. No Convention Of the reople
shall be called, unless by the concurrence
OF two.thirds Of the whole repre- .entaiion in
each House of the General Assembly.
SGcTioS 2. No part Of this Constitution
shall be altered, unless n bill to alter the
san,H shall have been read, on thrco several
days, in the House of Representatives, and
on three several days in the Senate, and
agreed to, at the second and third readiups,
by two thirds Of the whole represen alto n
IN each House Of the General Assembly:
neither shall any alteration fake effect. until
the bill, so agreed TO, shalt be published for
| three months previous 10 new election
for members of the House Of Representa-.
tives ; and, il the alteration proposed by
the preceding General Assembly shall be
agreed TO. by the new General Assembly, In
!her first session, by the concurrence of
two-thirds of the whole representation in
each House, after the same shall have besn
read on three several days in Zach; thes
and not otherwise the same shall become a
part of the Constitution.
Done in Convention at Columbia, in the
| State ofSouth Carolina, the twenty
seventh day of September, in tho
year OF our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty.fivs.
! ID. L.. WARDLAW,
President OF the Con vcn;ion.
Attest: JOHN II. SLOAN,
Clerk Of the Convention.