The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-02-05
The Reconsideration Convention.
SIXTEENTH DAY.

y SIXTEENTH DAY.
CHARLESTON, February 3.-The
Convention was called to order at IL
o'clock M. Prayer by Rev. Edward
Edwards.
The following committees made
lengthy reports, which, without being
read, were made the special order for
Wednesday, viz: Committee on Bill
of Rights; on the Legislative Part of
the Constitution; on the Judiciary,
and on Education.
B. 0. Duncan offered resolution,
which vas adopted, that @ committee
of two from each Congressional Dis
trict in the State, as they existed
prior to the Act of Secession, in
1860, be appointed by the President,
to inquire and report to this Conven-
ton the number of representatives
which will be proper, according to
the present law of the United States,
for this State to elect SC the Congress
of the United States, and that it
shall also report the suitable con-
struction of Congressional Districts,
according to the number of repre-
SentatlveS allowed them.
The same member also offered O
resolution, with n preamble, that as
large proportion of the executors,
administrators, guardians, and other
fiduciary agents appointed in this
State prior to and during the rebel
lion, either actually did or fraudu-
lently pretended to have invested the
funds confded to their care in the
securities of the rebel Government,
or of some one of the rebel States,
for the purpose of carrying on the
war, &C.; and the investment thus
made was not only treason against
the United States, but q fraud upon
the rights of the persons whom they
were appointed to represent, and who
were legally incompetent to protect
their own interests,
Resoloed, That all investments of
the funds of estates of infants, mar
ried women, idiots, lunatics, &C., in
the securities of the late rebel Go
vernment, by the executors, admins
traitors, guardians, Masters and Com
missioners in Equity, trustees, and
other fiduciary agents, are and shall
forever after be absolutely.held to be
null and void, and under no plea or
pretence shall any such investment
avail in any court of law or equity in
this Stale to bar or hinder recovery
in lawful money of the United States.
Referred to the Committee on the
Judiciary.
r. G. Holmes, Of Beaufort, pre-
sented a petition from citizens of
Beaufort, praying the transfer of the
court house from Gillisonville to that
place. Referred to the Committee
on Petitions.
J. X. Jillson offered resolution,
defining the qualifications of voters
in all elections in the State. Referred
to the Committee on Franchise.
J. FL. Rainey, from Georgetown,
offered q resolution, which was
adopted, that this Convention do
hereby declare to the people of South
Carolina, and to the world, that they
have no land or lands at their dis
posal, and, in order TO disabuse the
minds of all persons whatever in the
State who may be expecting q distri-
button of lands by the Government
OF the United States, through the
Bureau of Freedmen, Refugees and
Abandoned Lands, do further de-
clare, that no Act Of confiscation has
been passed by the Congress of the
United States, and it is the belief of
this Convention there never will be-;
and that the only manner by which
land can be obtained by the landless
will be to purchase it.
The same delegate also offered q
resolution. providing for the public
sale of property only in the Districts
in which the same is located, and
that all titles, warrants and other
Papers ~ reference to said transfer
shall be recorded or deposited only
in the proder Office in said Districts.
The special order, the ordinance