Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-07-08
The Inauguration of the New Govern
ment.

Inc lnaugnfatlOn OF the new 0oVeEn.
ment.
HEApoUART's SECOND MILITARY DISTRICT,
CHAsLssToS, 8. c., June 80, 1888. )
{ General Orders No. l20.
Ia conformity with the law Of the Unitad
S.stss passed June %, 1888, entitled I" An
Act TO admit the States of North CAROLINA,
South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama
and Florida to representation in Congress"
all officers OF the States of North Carolina
and South Carolina, Gully elected and quail
fled under the Constitutions thereof, and not
prohibited from holdiag Office in said States
By the third section of the proposed amend
ment to the Constitution of the United States,
known as Article Fourteen, will, upon the
ratification of the said amendment by the
Legislature, be inaugnrated without delay:
taking the oath of Office prescribed by the
Constitutions of the States in which they have
been elected, and otherwise qualifying, in
conformity with the laws Of said States.
l. So much of the provisions of General
Orders No. 10, of May 2, and No. So, of May
u, 1868, from these headquarters, as desig-
mates the time for the officers elected under
the new Constitution to enter upon their du-
ties, and requires them to take the oath pre-
seribed by the law Of July 2, 1862, being SUI
perseded by the law above cited, is hereby
revoked.
2. The third section of the proposed amend
ment to the Consttuti~n, known as Article
Fourteen, is republishcd for the information
and government Of those whom it may concern:
ARTICLE XIV.
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SECTION 3. No person shall be Senator or
Representative in Congress, or Elector of
President and Vice President, or hold any
Office, civil or military, under tie United
States or under any State, who, hsvipg pre-
yiou>ly taken s.n oath as a member of Con-
eress, or as an officer of the United States, or
as ,,:ember of any State Legislature, or as
an executive or judicial officer of any State,
TO support the Constitution of the United
States, shall have engaged in insurrection or
rebellion against the same, or given aid or
comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress
may, by vote of two-thirds of each House,
remove such disability"
Should the disabilities of any of the officers
elect not have been removed, or if they should
from any other cause be unable to qualify,
the fact will be Immediately reported TO the
Governor of the State, and the present in
cumbents, if they are charged with any active
administrative duties, or with the care of pub
lie records, OF with the custody of public mo
ney or public property, will, in conformity
with the law, hold over until their successors
be duly qualified.
2. To facilitate the organization of the new
State Governments, the following appoint
ments are made:
To be Governor of North Carolina, W. W..
Holdent Governor elect,v vice Jonathan Worth,
removed.
To be Lieutenant Governor of North Caro-
lima, Tod R. Caldwell, Lieutenant Governor
elect, to fill an original vacancy.
To take effect July l, 1868, on the meeting
of the General Assembly of the State Of
North Carolina.
3. To be Governor of South Carolina, Rob
ert X. Scott, Governor elect, vice James l..
Orr, removed.
To be Lieutenant Governor, Lemuel Boozer,
Lieutenant-G Governor elect to ell vacancy.
To take effect July G. 1868, on the meeting
of the General Assembly Of the State of
South Carolina.
4. The County Courts of North Carolina
and the District Courts of South Carolina
having been abolished, the records of all such
Courts will be transferred 10 the custody OF
the Clerks of the Courts Of the respective
Counties, and all unexecuted processes or
other unfinished business of the said Courts
wilrbe returned, in the, former State to the
Superior Court, and in the latter to the Court
of Common Pleas and General Sessions, at
the first ensuing session held in such County
and in like manner the records, papers and
public property in the custody of the Clerks
of said County and District Courts, as we'll
as in the hands of Clerks and Masters in
EQUITY in North Carolina, shall be turned
over to the incoming Clerks of said Superior
Courts and Cou:ts Of Common Pleas.
S. Unless or until otherwise directed by the
General Assembly of North Carolina, the
duty of approving the bonds of public officers
of Counties will be devolved upon the County
Commissioners elected under the new Con-
stitction.
6. For the purpose of organization, the
County Commissioners elect of each County
in the State of North Carolina shall, on the
day provided by the Constitution for them to
enter upon their duties, or as soon thereafter
as practicable, assemble together at the
Court.House in each County, and elect one
of their number Chairman, who shall there
upon request the Chairman of the retiring
County Court to administer the oath of Office
to the said Commissioners and the said
Chairman of the retiring County Court is
hereby empowered and required Immediately
to administer to the said Commissioners, sew.
orally, the oath prescribed by said Constitu-
ton; which oath having been by them then
aud there taken and subscribed, said Board
of County Commissioners shall be deemed
duly qualified and inducted into office.
The County Commissioners elect in South
Carolina will organize in like manner, there
tiring Ordinary N each County administering
the oath.
I. Until the General Assembly of the State
of South Carolina shall expressly prescribe
by law the duties of the Sheriffs, Coroners
and Clerks Of Courts chosen or authorized to
+. chosen at the election held in said State
On the I'd and Sd of June, 1868, the officers
SO elected shall, after qualification, perform
the duties prescribed for said officers by law
under the existing provisional government If
the State.
s. Until otherwise provided by law, the
Judges of Probate elected in South Carolina
shall perform the duties heretofore performed
by Ordinaries and in respect to business
appertainiug to minors, and the allotment OF
dover, and in cases of idiocy and lunacy, ard
persons non compotes n,entis, shall conduct
their proceedings as far as possible in con
formity with the rules and regulations govern
ing the practice in like cases in the Courts of
the Provisional Government now authorized
by law to take jurisdiction Of such business,
and records and public property in the hands