The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-03-19
: The Conatitutien.
. ARTICLE v.
JURISPRUDENCE

, SEC. i. The General Assembly shall
pass such laws as may be necessary
and proper, &c decide differences py
arhitrators, to be appointed by the
parties who may choose that
mode of adjustment.
SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the
General Assembly to pass the neces-
sary laws for the change of venue in
all cases, civil and criminal, over
which the Circuit Courts have ori-
ginal jurisdiction, npon q proper
showing. supported by affidavit, that
fair and impartial trial cannot be
had in the County where such trial
or prosecution was commenced.
Sec. 3. The General Assembly, at
it's first session after the adoption of
this Constitution, shall make provi-
sion to revise, digest and arrange,
under proper heads, the body of our
laws, civil and criminal, and form a
penal code, founded upon principles
of reformation, and have the same
promulgated in such manner as they
may direct; and like revision, di-
gest and PRONUNCIATION shall be made
within every subsequent period of
ten years. That justice shall be ad-
ministered in q uniform mode of
pleading, without distinction between
law and equity, they shall provide
for abolishing the distinct forms of
action, and for that purpose shall ap-
point some suitable person or per-
sons, whose duty it shall be to revise,
simplify, and abridge the rules, prac-
tice, pleadings and forms of the court
now in use in this State.
ARTICLE VII.
IMPRACHMRNTs.
SEC. l. The House of Representa-
tivcs shall have the sole power of
impeachment. A vote of thirds
of all the members elected shall be
required for ali impeachment, and
any officer impeached shall thereby
be suspended from Office until judg-
ment in the case shall have been pro
nounced.
Sec. .. All impeachments shall be
tried by the Senate, and when sitting
for that purpose, they shall be under
oath or affirmation. No person shall
be convicted except by vote of two
thirds of all the members elected.
When the Governor is impeached,
the Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court, or the senior Judge, shall pre-
side, with II casting vote in all pre-
liminary questions.
Sec. 3. The Governor and all other
executive and judicial officers shall
be liable to impeachment; bnt judg-
mcnt IN such cases shall not exceed
further than removal from Office.
The persons convicted shall, never
thcless, be liable to Indictment, trial
and punishment, according to law.
SEC. A. For any wilful neglect of
duty, or other reasonable cause,
which shall not be sufficient ground
of impeachment, the Governor shall
remove any executive or judicial
officer, on the address OF two-thirds
of each House Of the General Assem-
bly,: Prociled, That the cause or
causes for which said removal may be
required shall be stated at length in
such address, and entered on the
journals of each House: And 1ropid-
ed f'oqher, That the officer intended
to be removed shall be notified of
such cause or causes and shall be
admitted to n hearing in mis- own de-
fence, before any vote for snch ad-
dress; and in all cases this vote shall
be taken by yeas and nays, and be
entered on the journals of each
House respectively.
ARTICLE VIII.
RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE.
SEC. 1. In all elections by the peo-
pie the electors shall vote by ballot.
SEC Q. Every male citizen of the
Uniteu 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 this
Constitution, or who shall thereafter
reside in this State one year, and in