The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1865-10-04
ARTICLE TX.


the people, and all free Governments arc
founded on their authority, and are instituted
for their peace, safety and happiness
F. Sec. 2. No person shall be taken, or i'm
prisoned, or disseized of his freehold, liberties
or privileges, or outlawed or exiied, or in any
manner deprived of his life, liberty OF proper
ty, but by due process Of law NOR shall any
bill of attainder, &c past facto law, or aaw i'm
pairing the obligation of contracts, ever be
passed by the General ASSEMBLY.
Sec. 8. The, military shau be subordinate
to the civil power.
Sec. 4. The privilege Of the writ If ba5eas
corpus shall not be suspended, unleos when,
in case of rebellion or. invasion, the public
safety requires a., $3.50
Sec 5. Excessive bail shall not bereduired,
nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel punish
ments inflicted. - S.: -
Ser. 6. The General Assembly shall not
grant any title of nobility, or hereditary dis
tinetion, nor create say Office, the appoint
nlent to which shall be for any longer time
than during good behavior. 80
Sec. Z. The trial BY jlry,as heretofore used !,
inthis State, and the liberty Of the press,
shall be forever inviolably preserved. But
the General Assembly shall hare power to de !
.terrnine the nuuber Of persons who shall con-
5stitute the jury in the Inferior and District
Courts.
Sec. 8. The free exercise and enjoyment of.
religions professions and worship, without dis.
elimination or preference, shall be allowed, with
in this State, to all mankind: Psoosded, That the
liberty Of conscience hereby declared shall not
be so construed as to excuse acts Of Ecentious-.
| ness, or justify practices inconsistent with the
peace and safety ofthe State.
Sec. 9. The rights, privileges, inHlunities and
estates of both civil and religious societies, and
of corporate bodies. shall remain asif the Coasti
+ tuition Of this State had not been altered OF
amended.
Sec. 10. The rights Of primogeniture shallno
be re-established, and there shall not fail to be
some legislative provision for the equitable dis.
--tribution of the estates intestates. - -
Sec. II. The slaves in South Carolina having
tbeen enanepated by the action Of the United
States authorities, neither slavery nor nyolunta-
| yy, ,servitnde, except as punishment for crime,
whereof the party shall have been dnly convicted.
shall ever be re.establshed in this State.
ARTICLE 3 x.
Sec. T. The General Assembly, whenever
tax is laid upon land, SHALL at the same time, i'm
pose eapitation tax, which 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 eapftatioR tax allsuea
classes of persons, as from disabiltyor otherwise
fought, in the judgment of the General Assembly
to be xempted. &
I So ARTICLE XT. 4
See. /. The business Of the Treasury shall be
conducted By one Treasurer, who shall hold his.
EofRee and reside at The seat.of Government.
/ See. 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.
Ecalled, unless by the concurrence oftNc thirds Of
the whole Representatives in each House Of the
General Assembly.
| Sec. 2. No part Of this Constitution shall be
altered, unle bill to alter the same shalfhavc
/ been read, on three several days, in the House
Of Representatives, and on three several days in
the Senate, and agreed to, at the second and
third readings, by two thirds oft the whole repre-
Escntation in each House of the General Assembly;
neither shall any alteration take effect, uatil the
bin, so agreed to, shall be published for three
months previous to q new election for members
Of The Houscof Representatives; and. II the al
feration proposed By tie preceding General As
tsemblg shallbe agreedtg BY the new Generals
I Assembly, in their first session, by The concur
renee Of two thirds of the whole representation
in each House, after the saneshaIl have been
read on three several days in each then and not
otherwise the same shall heco:pe part Of the
Constitution.
Done in Convention az Columbia in the State of
K South Carolina, the twenty y.seyenth day of Sep.
+ .tember, in the year Of our Lord One thousand
i eight hundred and sixt5-6ye.
s2 D. L, WARDLAW,
" President Of tile Convention,
i Attest: JOIN T. SLOAN,
z Clerk of the Conye, tion