Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-02-01
.Es From tho Columbia Daily ph@nix
Proceedings Of tho Conventiah,

CHAnLEsroN, S. G., Januaryf23, 1868
The Convention assembled atf12 NJ, !, !, and was
oallod to orderyby President A, q, MacIty.
Prayer was offered blythe Rev, RfH dain,
/ (colorcd y,
JJ, Wright smado a report Of the sSqom-
pittee on the Judiciary !; on a arcsolutioSgf ia- !,
qoiry as to tho;logislatiye powers qf sfS CON
vention. The Committee are of opinion that
tho Convention has tho power.to ,legisl{to as
far ia Z as they may consider itpropcr for thdgood
Of Che people. d
~ y Moses, Jr., moved that tho rcp pbrt be
made tho special order for O'clock td.mor.
rev.
j. j. Wright madc report of tho same
Committee, on an ordinance for the addition
OF tho District Courts. The Committee re-
gard the 'ofainanco as unnecessary, as % sub.
ject will bo embraced in the report Of the Ju-
dietary Committee, upon that portion Of the
Constitution referred to them. Adoptcd.
c. NJ. Oslcn offered tho following, which
was referred to the Committee on Finuncc:
RcsotOca, That all banks and saving insti.
tutions in this State, which suspended pay.
mcnt during the rebellion, shall, immsliatoly
after the ratiGcatop Of tho State Consk ktaa,ion,
go Into E1~:a..:s. -... =
b. Il. Randolph offered the following, which
was referred to the Committee on franchise
and Elections
Whereas, incentives arc necessary toa moro
speedy attainment Of learning and intelligence,
which arc tho sure guards Of Republican lib
crty; therefore be it
ResolOr1, That the forth coming Constitu-
tiori Of the State shall provide that all persons
coming Of age after the first of January,
| 1875, shell possess the qualification Of read
ing and writing intelligontly, in order to be
able to vote. Referred to the Committee on
Franchise and E!cctions,
B Il. Whttcn,orc oifcrcd tho foli5winr,
which was referred to the Committee On ed
ucation.
No township or school district .all 'foccivc
any portion Of the public school fund unless
free school shall have been kept therein for
not less than three months during the year,
for which the distribution therein shall have
been made. The Legislature shall have the
power to require, by law, that every child of
tsufiticnt mental and physical ability shall al :.
tend the public schools, during the period be,
tween the ages of five and eighteen years, for
term equivalent to sixteen months, unless
educated by other means. s
II. G. Holmes offered d resolution, requir
ing that no debt contracted by the State of
South Carolina while in rebellion against the
United States, shall be lcgalizcd or laid by
any Act of any Legislature Of this State
Referred to the Committee on tho Legislative
part Of the Constitutions
Robert Small offered tho following, which
WAS referred to the Committee on Education :
That the Committee on the Constitution be
directed to report an article providing for a
system of common schools, Of different grades,
f, to be open without charge to all classes of
persons.
B. L. Randolph introduced the following,
which was definitely postponed
That the forthcoming Constitution shall
not itself make any distinction on account of
color, and shall provide that no distinction on
account Of color in any law, legislative orjnu.
nicipal, shall be made in this State tand that
there shall be no distinction on account of col
or in any institution which depends on the
public for it's support.
an ordinance for the division Of Pickcns
/ District WAS discussed, and was finally made
the special order for Monday nqxt, at ]
o'clock.
The next special order taken up was the
petition to Gen. Candy for the stay of all exc
cutions on debts contracted prior I'd the 3Oth
of June, 1865.
Rutland moved, on behalf of II J. Rob-
ertson, that the Convention grant Tim leave
to read hi, remarks on the subject, which had
been committed to writing
Il. j. Robertson then rose, and said it was
not tho poor man, or the loyal man, who
brought about the present impoverished oon-
dlton of the country. On the contrary, it
was those who claim to have tho wisdom and
wealth of tho country, These last were the
very men now clamoring for stay laws aud
homestcads He never knew man Who paid
his debts only at the end of the law, to paw
them at all when he had stay law. These
parties owning largo bodies Of lands, want.