Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-03-12
FORTY.sEcoND DAY.


FoRTY-sEcoND DAY 81" /.
WEDNESDAY, March 4.-Section 5th, providing
for the leyying Of poll tax, was taken up.
Several amendments were proposed, when r.
B. Elliott introduced the following:
Provided that no person shall be deprived Of
the right of suffrage for the non-payment of said
tai" a... U. -. t B.
This amendment caused lengthy discussion as
to the probabilities Of enforcing the payment col
lection Of poll tax with sucha proviso in the Con.
stitution. Those in favor Of the amendment ar.
gued that other measures could be devised for en-
forcing payment other than depriving delinquents
of the right to vote, as is the custom most States
where poll tax is levied On the opposite sideit
was urged that the amendment was death stroke
to the raising of school fund of $l50 900 az pro-
posed by the report, to be realized from an annual
poll tax of one dollar per head on each male inhab
liant. " '.."' .~
Motions were made to indefinitely postpone the
amendment, but were all laid upon the table by q
decided majority. .a
The amendment of Elliott was finally adopted
and the section, as amended, was passed to it,
third reading. Failure to pay the poltax Is net te
prevent any person from voting. g
j. j. Wright offered the following resolution,
which was agreed to. "9G to n"aA : Il a-g- =
1tcSUlftuj 1udG IL Ut TclcIIcu W u OpcCIdl OOul-
mttee Of five to report, an ordinance appropratine
the Citadel and the grounds connected Herewith,
in the city of Charleston, to educational purposes
establishment of a College, which, in connection
with primary and grammar schools, shall be mana.
ged by Board of Trustees and their successors,
who shall be chosen by the General Assembly, and
shall be subject TO visitation by the Superintendent
of the Board Of Public Instruction in this State.
The Committee on Franchise and Elections sub
mitted report which received its first reading. -
It is as follows: " Z. s.'rr :,...l- ~
SECTION !. In all elections by the people the
electors shall vote by ballot. -.
SEC. 2. Every male citizen of the United States
of the age Of twenty-one years and upwards, not
laboring under the disabilities named in this Con.
stitution without distinction of race, color or pre-
vious condition, who shall be resident of this
State at the time of the adoption Of this Consttu-
ton, or who shall thereafter reside in this State
one year, and in the county sixty days next prece-
ding any election, and every male inhabitant Of
foreign birth of the age aforesaid, who shall have
resided in this State one year, and in the county
sixty days Immediately preceding such elections,
and shall have declared his intentions to become q
of the United States on the subject Of naturaliza-
ton shall be entitled to vote for all officers that are
now, or hereafter may be, elected by the people,
and upon all questions submitted to the electors at
any election; Provided, that every person coming
of age after the year A. 1875, to vote, be able to
read and write but this qualification shall not ap
ply to any person prevented by physical disability
from complying Herewith. Provided further,
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,
provided that the General Assembly shall have
the power to remove said disability by two-thirds
vote. Provided further, That no person, while
kept in any aims house or asylum, or of unsound
mind, or confined in any public prison, shall be al
lowed to vote or hold Office. -. ~. -! ,4;L =
SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the General As
tration of all electors. 70
SEC. 4. For the purpose of voting, no person
son of absence while employed in the service ofthe