Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-03-19

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The Executive Department" provides for the
election, by the people, every two years, of Coy
ernor and Lieutenant Governor Eligibility re-
uuires belief in Supreme Being, to be 30 years
of age and citizen of the United States, and OF
this State and resident of this State for TWO years
preceding election. He must also reside at the
capitol after election. Lieutenant Governor to be
&c o6cso president of the Senate, and to fill the
place of Governor in case of vacancy. The Gov-
ernor is given the usual veto, and other powers.
The qualified voters of the State are to elect the
following State Officers Comptroller General, At
torney- General, Treasurer, Commissioner Of Edu-
cation and Secretary of State; each to hold Office
four years.
The only Offices to which the incumbents are not
elective by the voters at large, are the Judges OF
the Supreme Court, and such number Of Circuit
Judges as may be provided for. The Judges OF
the Supreme Court are to be elected by the Legs
lature, to hold Office for six years; and to be 80
classified that one will go out Of Office every two
years. The Circuit Judges, likewise elected, hold
Office for four years. Eligibility for either Judge
ship requires citizenship of the United States to
be 30 years of age, and five years residence in this
State, or from the adoption Of this Constitution
Where any Judge may be interested in the e.
vent of any suit coming before him for trial, the
Governor is authorized to appoint some person
'learned in the law" to play Judge pro tenn. in
hearing the case. The Circuit Judges are to be
selected, one from each Circuit and to have Jurls-
diction in cases of law and equity and suits for d.
vorce; and to hold two sessions in each county an
nually The Courts Of Equity, as now established
to continue until January l, 1869, in order to dis
pose of accumulated business
Clerks, Sheriffs and Corones to be elected by
the voters Of each county, and to hold Office tor
four years. Solicitors to be elected by voters In
each Circuit, for four years.
The Courts of General Sessions are to sit, in each
county, three times each year. Probate Courts are
also provided for-the Judge to hold Office for two
years, and be elected by the qualified voters. The
Probate Court is the same as the present Court OF
Ordinary
A Court of Commissioners three in number
is also provided for to have jurisdiction over roads,
bridges, the poor, &C., and are also to be elected
by the people every two years. Also suitable
number of magistrates, and constables, likewise
elective for two years, and to hold Courts in cases
of bastardy, contracts and fines not exceeding SlOo
and also in cases of assault and battery, and other
misdemeanors less than felony. Magistrates to
have other usual powers.
The Legislature at its first session, is required to
make provisions to revise, digest and arrange the
civil and criminal laws of the State heretofore Of
force and for the administration Of justice in
uniform mode of pleading without distinction be-
tween law and equity.
Rules of practice and pleading at law are also tc
be revised and simplifed.
The Legislature may levy apol tax of 81 per head
for educational purposes land all other proper
tyto be assessed taxed according to actual value
Downs and corporations may impose taxes tor spe
tTcific purposes. The State shall contract no deb
unless by two-thirds vote Of both branches OF the
Assembly. The public debt Of the State to be
paid except debts contracted in aid of the rebel
lion,
A homestead is to be fixed upon each family, ex
empt from levy and sale; and wife 8 property, O.
any character, not to be liable for debts Of the hus
band. The Districts of the State arc to be called
counties.
Article 10 presents the Educational programme
It provides for State Superintendent of Educa
ton, elected by voters at large and Commission
| er elected from each county the whole to constl
tute the board of Education. School districts
shall be established, and one or more schools KEEP
open in each school district six months out OF the
year. The Legislature shall provide fer the com
pulsory attendance of all children between and IL
years DID, for term Of "a months at least. This
is to 20 into effect when the school system is fully
Organized A State Normal School shall be estab
/ hshed, and Reform School, and special tax be
collected for the support ofthe schools. The State
University is to be supported, and the Citadel in
Charleston re-estabshed as an educational institu
ton.
The Article on Franchise thus specifies who
shall and who shall not vote:
SEC. 2. Every male citizen of the United States,
of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, not
aboring under the disabilities named in this con-
stituton without distinction of race, color or form
er condition, who shall be resident of this State
who shall thereafter reside in this State one year,
and in the county in which he offers to vote, sixty
days next preceding any election shall be entitled
to vote for all officers that are now, or hereafter
may be, elected by the people, and upon all ques-
tons submitted to the electors at any elections
Provided, That no person shall be allowed to vote
or hold Office who is now or hereafter may be dis
qualified therefor by the Constitution CT the Uni
ted States; until such disqualification shall be re-
moved by the Congress ofthe United States; Pro-
rided further, That no person, while kept in any
alms house or asylum, or Of unsound mind, or con-
fined in any public prison, shall be allowed to vote
or hold Office