The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-03-17
ARTICLE I.

State shall be vested In b General Assembly,
which shall consist OF a Senate and House
of Representatives.
SECTION 2. The House OF Representatives
shall be composed Of Meinbers chosen by bal.
lot, every second year, by the citizens Of this
State. qualified as in this Constitution sPro.
vided
SEcTioS 3. Each Judicial District in the
State shall constitute one Election District, cx.
cept Charleston District, which shall be divi-
dled into Two Election Districts one consisting
of the late Parishes of st. Phillip aud st.
Michael, to be designated the Election Dis:
trict OF Charleston the other consistin@ of al
that part OF the Judicial District. which is
without the lImits OF said Parishes. to be known
as tho Election District of Berkeley.
SECTION 4. Tho boundaries Of tho several Ju
dicial and election Districts etal remain as
they are now established.
SECTION 8. The House of Representatives
shall consist OF ono hundred and twenty four
Members, to be apportioned among the several
Election Districts OF tho State, according to
tho number OF white inhabitants CONTAINED in
each, and the amount of all taxes raised by the
General Assembly, whether direct or indirect,
or OF whatever species paid in each, deducting
therefrom all taxes paid ON account of proper
ty held in any other District, and adding
thereto all taxes elsewhere paid on account OF
property held in SUI h District. An cnumera-
tion OF the white inhabitaAts, for this purpose,
wastnade the year ono thousand eight hun
dred aud dlty- nine. and shall be made in the
course OF eSeTy tenth year thereafter, in such
Representatives shall he assigned to the diff
ent Districts ia the above o-menl ioncd proper.
tiop, by Act OF the Gcner l Assembly at thc
session Immediately succe, ding every enumc
ration PROVIDED, Tha, until the arporton.
ment, which shall be mad, upon the next
neration, shall take effect, the rcprcscp,a lion
ofthe several Election Districts, as herein con-
stituted, shall continue rs assigned at the last
apportionnent, each District which hos been
heretofore divided into smaller Districts.
known as Parishes, havi ing the aggregate mum
Der of Representatives which The Parishes
heretofore embraced within its limits have had
since that apporionmcnt, the Representative
TO which the Parish of a II Saints has been
heretofore cn'i,lcd. being during this interval,
assigned 10 Iiorry Election District.
SECTION 6. ltthc cndr'cration herein direct.
cd shall not be made IN tnCscou of tie year
appointed for tho purpose. it shall be tue duty
OF the Governor to have j.. riiccted as coon
thereafter as shall be practicable
SECTION In nssghing Representatives to
the several Districts, the General Assembly
shall allow Que Representative Tor every aixty-
second. part of the whole number Of white in :.
habiiauts in tho State, and one Representative
aso for every sixty second pnrt of the whole
taxes raised toy th General Assembly. there
shall bc uuhcr allowed one Representative
fjr such fractions of the sixty second part ui
tho white Inhabitants, and Of the sixty. second
pTt "ithc taxes, as when added together form
unit.
SECTION 8. All taxes upon property, real or
personal, shall be- laid uouI the actual value Of
the property taxed, as the same shall bc asccr
taIHed by the assessincnt made or the pur-
pose OF .lnying such tax. la the first nppor-
ti)nnent which shall hG made under the Coz,
stiintion, the amount OF taxes shall be esiiiua
ted from the average of the two years next ta-
Cedirg such apporionment but in ever sub
sequGnt apporlonncnt, from tn, average of
the ten year then next preceding.
SECTION 9. II, IN the apportionmcat of Rep
rcseutatives any Election District shall ap-
pcar'not to be entitled, from is population n nd
its taxes. to Representative; surhdElection
District shall nevertheless send one R.prcscn-
tative; and, IL there he still n deficiency OF the
number OF Representatives required by sec =
ton filth, such deficiency shall be supplied by
assigning Representatives to those Election
DISTRICTS having the largest surplus fractions,
@hctheEthose fractions consist or a cornbira !.
tion OF populs 'ion and taxes, or of population
ar taxes separately, until the number Of one
hundred and twenty .iour Members be made
up: Propided, hODeuer, That not more than
twelve Representatives shall, in any apportion.
ment be assig ned to any one Election District
SECTION 10. No apportionmcnt Of Represei,-
ia.ives shall be construed to take effect, in any
manner. until the general election which shall
succeed such apportonnent
SECTION IL. The Senate shall be composed Of
one member from each Election Disttict, except
the Election District of Charleston, to which
shall be allowed two Senators.
SEcTIos l2., Upon the neeting' Of the frat
General Assembly, which shall be chosen un-
Senators shal be devided, by lot, into two
classes the seats OF the Senators Of the one
class to be vacated at ,he expiration Of four
years |; and the number OF these classes shall
be 30 proportioned that one half Of the whole
number OF Senators may; as nearly as possiS
Bile continue to be chosen thereafter every sec
ond year.
.EaSEoTioN l3. No person shall be eligible to,
or take or retain, scat in the House Of Repre-
sentatives, unlcss i'e is n free white man, who
hath attained the age q twenty one years,
nath been n citizen and a resident Of this State
three years next preceding the day oi election,
and hath been for the last elk months Of his
time, and shall continue. resident OF the Dis,
trict which he 10 TO represent.
SECTION Id. No person shall be eligible to,
or take or retain, a seat n the Senate, unless
he 10 free white man, who haiti attained the
age of thirty years, bath been citzon and
resident of this State five years next preceding
the day Of election, and hath been. for the las'
six months of this time. and sball continue tu
be, resident ofthe District which lie ia TO rep.
resent.
SECTION Is. Senator'S aud Members Of the
House OF Representatives shall be chosen at
general election on the third "wednesday in
October In the present year, and on tho same
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