Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-04-02

thereto the necessary wearing apparel Provided,
That no property shallbe exempt from attachment,
levy or sale, for taxes, or for payment of obliga-
tions contracted for the purchase of said homestead
or the erection of Improvements Proraded,
further, That the yearly products OF said home
stead shall not be exempt from attachment levy or
sale, for the payment of obligations contracted In
the production of the same. 1t shall be the duty
of the General Assembly, at its first session, to en-
force the provisions of this section by suitable leg
islation. .., ....l ,..l
ARTICLE Y. ,-. ~. ~.
JURISPRUDENCE.
Section 1. The General Assembly shall pass
such laws as may be necessary and proper, to de-
eide differences by arbitrators to be appointed BY
the parties, who may choose that summary mode
Of adjustment. -,...-..
Section g. It shall be the duty Of the General
Assembly to pass the necessary laws for the change
of venue in all cases. civil and criminal over which
the Circuit Courts have original jurisdiction, upon
proper showing, supported by affidavit, that a
fair and impartial trial cannot be had in the coun-
ty where such trial or prosecution was commen-
ced t' =
Section 8. The General Assembly, at its first
session after the adoption of this constitution, shall
make provision to revise, digest, and ARRANGE,
under proper heads, the body of our laws, civil
and criminal, and form penal code, founded upon
principles of reformation, and have the same pro.
mulgated in such manner as they may direct and
a like revision, digest, and promulgation shall be
made within every subsequent period OF ten years.
That Justice shall be administered in uniform
mode of pleading, without distinction between law
.S,,;t,, tbou eboll ,,roy;da for ohnEohiu0 tho
distinct forms of action, and for that purpose shall
appoint some suitable person or persons, whose
duty it shall be to revise, simply, and abrdge the
rules, practice pleadings, and forms OF the court
now in use in this State. .-.........
.... ARTICLE VI.
EMINENT DOMAIN.
Section l. The State shall have concurrent ju-
risdiction on all rivers bordering on this State, so
far as such rivers shall form common boundary
to this and any other State bounded by the same
and they together with all the other navigable
waters within the limits Of the State shall be COM
mon highways, and forever free, as well to the in
habitants of this State as to the citizens Of the
United States, without any tax or impost therefor,
unless the same be expressly provided for by the
General Assembly. .a"
Section 2. The title to all lands and other prop
erty which have heretofore accrued to this State
by grant, gift, purchase, forfeiture, escheats, Or
otherwise, shall vest in the State OF South Carroll
ma the same as though no change had taken place:
Section 8. The people Of the State are declared
to possess the ultimate property in and to al lands
within the jurisdiction of the State; and all lands,
the title to which shall fail from defect Of heirs,
shall revert or escheat to the people.
ARTICLE VII. ..
IMPEACHalENTs -
Section l. The House of Representatives shall
have the sole power Of impeachment: A vote OF
two-thrds of all the members elected shall be re-
uuired for an impeachment, and any officer I'M
til judgement in the case shall have been pr0n0un.
Section g. All impeachments shall be tried by
the Senate, and, when sitting. for that purpose,
they shall be under oath or affirmation. No per
son shall be convicted except by vote Of twothirds
of all the members elected. When the Governor
is impeached, the Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court or the senior judge shall preside, with a
casting vote in all preliminary questions:
Section g. The Governor and all other execu-
tive and judicial officers, shall be liable to mpeach.
ment; but judgment in such cases shall not extend
further than removal from Office. The persons
convicted shall, nevertheless, be liable to indict-
ment, trial, and punishment according tolaw
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er reasonable cause, which shall not be sufficient
ground of impeachment the Governor shall re-
move any executive or judicial officer on the ad.
dress of two-thirds of each House of the General
Assembly Provided, That the cause or causes for
which said removal may be required shall be stated
at length in such address and entered on the jour
nails Of each House and provided further, That
the officer intended to be removed shall be notified
of such cause or causes, and shall be admitted to
hearing in his own defence, before any vote tor
such address, and in all cases the vote shall be
taken by yeas and nays, and be entered on the
journals of each House respectively.
ARTICLE VIII.
RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE.
Section !. In all elections by the people, the
electors shall vote by ballot.
Section g Every male citizen Of the United
States, of the age Of twenty-one years and up,
wards, not labouring under the disabilities named
in this constitution without distinction OF race,
colour or former condition, who shall be resident
of this State at the time of the adoption OF this
constitution or who shall thereafter reside in this
State one year, and in the county in which he Of
fers to vote, sixty days next preceding any cleo
ton, shall be entitled to vote for all officers that
are now, or hereafter may be elected by the peo-
ple, and upon all questions submitted to the cleo
tors at any elections. Provided, That no person
shall be allowed to vote or hold Office who is now
or hereafter may be disqualified therefor by the
Constitution of the United States; until such dis,
qualification shall be removed by the Congress OF
the United States Provided further, That no per,
son, while kept in any aims house or asylum, or OF
unsound mind, or confined in any public prison,
shall be allowed to vote or hold Office.
Section 8. 1t shall be the duty Of the General
Assembly to provide, from time to time, for the
registration of all electors.
Section 4. For the purpose Of voting, no person
shall be deemed to have lost his residence by rea-
son of absence while employed in the service ofthe
United States, nor while engaged upon the waters
of this State or the United States, or OF the high
seas, nor while temporarily absent from the State.
Section s. No soldier, seaman, or marine in the
army or navy of the United States shall be deemed
q resident Of this State in consequence OF having
been stationed therin.
Section 6. Electors, shall in all cases, except
treason, felony or breach Of the peace be priv
legged from arrest and civil process during their at,
attendance at elections, and in going to and re-
turning from the same.
Section 7. Every person entitled to vote at any
election shall be eligible to any office which now Is
or hereafter shall be elective by the people in the
county where he shall have resided sixty days pre-
yious to such election, except as otherwise provl
ded in this constitution the Constitution andaws
of the United States
Section g. The General Assembly shall never
pass any law that will deprive any of the citizens Of
this State of the rights of suffrage except tor trea
SON. murder, robbery, or dueling, whereof the per
sons sons shall have been duly tried and convicted.
Section 9. Presidential electors shall be elected
by the people. - . ho,a hu .ho ,,oon,o