The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-03-03

which.shall consist of a Senate and House
of Representatives.
SECTION 2. Tho House Of Representatives
shall be composed OF Members chosen by BAL
lot. every second year by the citizens Of this
State, qualified as i'll this Constitution is pro .
vded.
SECTION 3. Each judicial District in the
&c shall constitute one Election District cx.
ccpt Charleston District, Which shall be. divi-
drd into two Election Districts, ono consisting
Of the late Parishes of st. Phillip and st
Michael to be designated tho Election Dis.
trict OF Charleston the Other consisting of all
that part Of tho Judicial Disc irirt, which is
without the lrni's Of said Parishes. TO be known
as the Election Dis,rict OF Berkeley
Section 1. Tho boundaries OF ihc several Ju.
dcal and Election Districts shall remain as
they are now established
SECTION 8. The House of Representatives
s.a'l consist u! one hundred aud twenty four
Mrmb2rs. TO be appurtioned among the several
EiOCtinn Districts OF the State, according to
the nuEnIcr oi white inhabitants con,milrd in
. Zach, aud the amOont oi all taxes raised By the
Gcucral Assembly, whether direct or iudir cct,
or oi whatever species paid in each, iofuCtine
thcrc'rum all taxes paid IN account Of proper.
~ held in any other District, and adding
thereto all taxes elsewhere paid on account Of
property held in such District. An cuuncra-
ton of the white inhabitants. for this purpose
was made / the year one thousa nd eight nun
dtcd and fifty pine. aud shall be made in the
course OF every tenth year thereafter. in such
Representatives. shall he assigned To the differ
cnt Disricts in the above mentioned proper.
ton, by Act OF the General Assembly at the
session Immediately succeeding every cnume.
ration: Pr0rided,. That until the avportion.
rticnt, which sha be maiG upon the next emu.
mcration, shall take effect, the representation
OF the several Election Districts, ashcrcin con-
stituted, shall continue as assigned at tthc last
appOrtiou,nrnt, each District which has been
heretofore divided into smaller Districts.
No ahNs th,,n nt, a.,
bcr Of Representatives, which the Parishes
heretofore embraced within its limits have had
since that superintendent. the Representative
20 which the Parish of All Saints has been
heretofore Cn'itich, icing during his interval,
assigned to Ilorry Election District,
SECTION 8. II the crurNrration herein direct.
cd shall not be made in the Courec OF tic year
appointcd for tic purpose, it shall BE- the duty
Of the Governor to have il effected as soon
thereafter rs shall be pzactiCabic.
SECTro%7 in assigning Representatives to
the scvcral Districts, the Genera! Assembly
shall allow one Representative tor every sixty
second part of the whole number OF white III .
habitauts in tho State. aud unc Representative
also fur every sixty second part Of the whole
taxes raised by th &c ,crnl Assembly. There
sha!i he further allowed one Representative
for such fractions ofSthG sixty. second part OF
the white iuhrhitauts, and nf the sixty second
pr, at the taxes, as when added together fot m
aunt.
SECTIONS. All taxes upon property, real or
personal, shall br lai uuoi The actual value OF
the property taxed, as the saSIc shall be asccr.
tanned Ivy the assc-s sIncnt made pr the pur-
pose OF laying such tax. la the fret nppur-
tirnmcnt which shallshr made under the Con
S.tntiun, The amount of taxes shall b. csiiuta.
ted from The average of the two years ucXiprc.
ccdir e sach'npporuonncnt bur in ever sub,
scqueIt apportiOu LTom ihs average of
the ten yeats then next preceding.
Section 9. II, in the appurtioumcnt Of Req
rrscntatives any Election Distrlc, shall p
pear not 10 bacntitlCd, from i;s population and
It's taxes. to a Representative; sush Election
District shall nevertheless sc:id oun R-prcscu-
tativr; and, it there he sull deficiency of lhc
number OF Representatives. required by sec :
uon fifth, such deficiency shall be supped by
assigning representatives. To those Election
Districts having the largest surplus fractions,
whether those fractions consist OF n CSmbir :.
ton o! population and taxes. or of population
or taxes separately, until ihc number Of one
hundred and twenty tour Members be made
up: Provided, hO,rFvO. That not more than
twelve Represented Ives shall, in any a apDortion.
::icnt, be assio ned to any one Election District
SECTION 10. No apportionmcnt Of Hcprcgcn-
tahves shall be construed to take effect, in any
manner, until the general election which shaft
succeed such apporiionWcnt,
SECTION II. The Senate shall be conDoscd of
one member from each Election District, except
the Election District OF Charleston, to which
shall be allowed two Senator'S:
SECTioN II. Upon the meeting OF the frat
uencrai Assembly, ~hlch snail be chosen un-
der the provisions or this Constitution, the
Senator'S shall be dcvidcd, by lot into two
classes the scats OF the Senators Of the one
class to be vacated at The expiration OF four
yeart; and the number ors trcsG classes shall
bc so proportioned that one half OF the whole
number OF Senators may, as nearly as possi-
bic continue to be chosen thereafter every soc
end year.
tsgsEcTIoS l3. No person'shal Le cliglblc to,
o. i&se or retain, seat in the Housc Of Repre-
sentativcs, unless he is IA FREQ white man. who
hath attained the age of twenty.onc years.
nath been citizen and resident Of this state
three years next preceding the day uf election,
ana hath been for the last six months of this
time, and shall coniinucs rcsidento OF the Dis.
tYict which he ls to represent,
SECTION Ia. No pea Sun shall be eligible to,
or take or retain, seat II the Senate. unless
he ia free white man, who bath attained the
age Of thirty years, hath been citizen aud
resident or this State five years next preceding
the day OF election, and hath bc<u for the las,
ak months of this time, and sh1ll continue t.
bc, resident fthe District which he is to rep.
resent.
SECTION Is. Senators aud hlembcrsof the
House OF Representatives shall be chosen at a
general election On the third Wednesday in
October in the present year. and on 'ihc Same
day in every second year thereafter, iu such