The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1868-04-16
ARTICLE VIII.
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ARTICLE VIII.
RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE.
Sec. 1. In all elections by the
people the electors shall vote by bal
lot.
Sec. 1. Every male citizen of the
United States, of the age of twenty
one years and upwards, not laboring
under the disabilities named in this
Constitution, without distinction of
race, color, or former condition, who
shall be resident of this State at
the time of the adoption of the Con-
stitution, or shall thereafter reside in
this State one year, and in the Coun-
ty in which he offers to. vote, sixty
days next preceding any election,
shall be entitled to vote for all off
GERS that are now, or hereafter may
be, elected by the people, and upon
all questions submitted to the electors
at any elections; Prortded, 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 disqualification shall be re-
moved by the Congress of the Uni
ted States: Pr0pided further, That
no person, 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.
Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of
the General Assembly to provide from
time to time for the registration of
all electors.
Sec. 4. For the purpose of voting
no person shall be deemed to have
lost his residence by reason of abb
sence while employed in the service
of the United States, nor while en-
gagged upon the waters of this State
or the United States, or of the high
seas, nor while temporarily absent
from the State. .....
Sec. S, No soldier or seamen in
the army or navy of the United
States shall be deemed resident of
this State in consequence OF having
been stationed therein.
Sec. 6. Electors shall, in all cases,
except treason, felony or breach of
the peace be privileged from arrest
and civil process during their at
tendance at elections, and in going to
and returning from the same.
Sec. 7. Everyperson entitled to
vote at any election shall be eligible
to any office which now is or hcrcaf-
ter shall be elective by the people in
the county where he shall have resi-
ded sixty days previous to such cleo
ton, except as otherwise provided in
this Constitution and laws of the
United States.
Sec. s. The General Assembly
shall never pass any laws that will
deprive any of the citizens of the
rights Of suffrage except for treason,
murder robbery, or duelling whereof
the persons shall have been duly tried
and convicted.
Sec. 9. Presidential electors shall
be elected by the people.
Sec. 10. In all elections held by
the people under this Constitution,
the person or persons who shall re-
ccive the highest number Of votes,
shall be declared elected.
Sec. II. The provisions of this
Constitution concerning terms of res
idence necessary to enable certain
persens to hold certain Offices therein
mentioned, shall not be held to apply
to officers chosen by the people at
the first session.
Sec. -. No person shall be dis
franchiscd for felony or other crime
committed while such person was a
slave.
ARTICLE TX.
FINANCE AND TAXATION.
Sec. l. The General Assembly
shall provide by law for uniform
and equal rate of assessment and tax
ot;on. and shall prescribe such regu-