The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-03-11
FoRTY-FIRsT DAY.

EoRTY-FIRsT DAY.
The Convention assembled at 10 a. NJ.
and was called 10 order by the President
A. G. Macksy.
Prayer was offered by Rev. B. F. Ran.
dolph, {colored.)
The roll was called, and a quorum an
swering to their names, the President an.
nounced the Convention ready to proceed
to business.
The journal of Monday was read and
approved
B. F. Randolph made the following re-
port of the Committee on Miscellaneous
Provisions of the Constitution:
Whereas, No constitutional and legal
assembly of the General Assembly of this
State has been convened since the. COM
mencement of the rebellion against tha
authority of the Government of the Uni>
ted States; and whereas the body assem-
bled from time to time at the capitol OF
the State, since tho commencement OF
said rebellion, assuming to possess and
exercise the powers of the General. As.
sembly ut the State, had TO authority to
pledge the faith and credit of the State
for the benefit of any corporate body or
private individual, and its actions can be-
validated only by the confrmatory su-
thority of the legal government OF this
State; and whereas it is expedient that
when the credit of the State is advanced
or pledged for the benefit of public enter
prises and works in which the people OF
the State are interested, that power should
be lodged in the General Assembly to ex-
ercise salutary control over such public
enterprises and works. to the end that the
commerce and industry OF the State
should be adequately tostered aud promo
ted. Therefore be it
Ordained, That all Acts or pretended
Acts of legislation purporting to have
been passed by the General Assembly of
the State, since the Goth day of Decems
Der, A. D., 1860, pledging the faith and
credit of the State for the benefit of any
corporate body or private individual, are
hereby suspended and declared inopera-
tive until the General Assembly shall as
sembe and ratity or modify the same.
Mr.. Holmes moved that the report be.
made the special order for Thursday next,
at IL o'clock, which was agreed to.
r. C. DeLargc, Chairman of. the Com
mitteo on Franchise and Elections, made
a verbal report, stating that the Commit
tee would be ready to report tomorrow
morning.
Mr.. \. G. Parker offered the following
resolution, which was agreed to-:
Resolued, That the President Of this
convention be instructed to request Gen.
Canby to draw from the Treasury Of the
State the sum of $4,000 tor the purpose
of detraying the expenses of the Conven-
ton.
Mr. Craig called up the report of the
Committee on Miscellaneous Provisions OF
the Constitution, on an Ordinance provi-
ding for the organization of the Militia of
the State.
The article on the Militia, comprising
three sections WAS taken up.
MIR. Parker moved to amend the lst
section by substituting 81 for Is, as the.
age at which all male residents shall be-
come subject to militia duty; and, also,
to exempt all persons not electors Mir.
Parker said; he did not think boys or
those disfranchised should be placed in
the militia.
Mr.. Holmes opposed the amendment,
the section as it stood being similar in its
provisions with that OF other State Con-
stitutions, which usually enroll all male
inhabitants between the ages of IS and
As in the militia. They would be obliged
to depend upon volunteer independents
companies, which might be largely com
posed of those eighteen years of age.
l.. S. Langley also opposed the amend
ment, and stated that, in the march of
fifty miles of the Fifty-fourth Massachu-
setts Volunteers from Jacksonville to
Olustio, Florida, soldiers of eighteen and
even fifteen years of age boro the fatigue
march better than old soldiers.
j.. J. Wright opposed the amendments
excluding those who were disfranchised
from serving in the militia.
A. +. Ransicr moved to amend SO as to-
provide that the militia of the State shall
consist of all who are or may become
electors. The object was to make pro
vision for those now DISTINGUISHED, bu5
whose disabilities they hoped to see To-
moved. ,
Before the question was taken Inc houi
for the special ordcr arrived. h
The special order, which @ was sIe n' coz, o.
member from Fairfield, for the 18th sec
tion of the Legislative part of the Sonsti-
tuition, was taken up.
Mr. Mr. Rutland took the floor and argued
that the adoption of hesection as it stood
would create inextricable confusion in
abolishing the Courts of Equity and
fra nsferring the records to the Conrt of
Common Pleas. The Court of Equity, in:
some form, must exist in. this country, II
they intended to administer justice.
r. B. Elliott moved that the substitu.s
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