Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-02-13
WHAT THE CONVENTIONS ARE DOING.
sOJJTH CAROLINA.

SOUTH CAROLINA.
Several of the Committees on the Constitution
having reported the Convention is engaged in con.
sidering the reports A number of sections have
already passed to third readingand may be con-
sdered as adopted. On the outside Of to-day
zupssz.ssaszs.s....,..@ oe- The Committees "
'fuII, and on the inside, continue report OF the
proceedings, which show the sections that have
been acted upon up to the latest dates In order
to fully understand the action Of the Convention,
it is necessary to compare the same with the orig,
inal reports.
So far as the Virginia Convention is concerned,
all may be reported as 'quiet along the Jeemes. .
The Committee on Banks have reported in favor
of prohibiting the Legislature from granting char
ters to corporations that discount paper at an un-
lawful rate of interest and prohibiting individuals
who do so, from holding State Office. "
An Ordinance was adopted providing that the
governor shall be elected for four years. and be in
eligible to reelection for the succeeding term. 1t
also required that he be thirty years of age, citi
zen of the United States for twenty years, and a
citizen of Virginia for FIVE years. Subsequently,
however, the Ordinance was re-considered and re-
committed to the Committee on the Executive.
The salary of the Governor was fixed at four thou
sand dollars.
An Ordinance was adopted requiring the assent
of two-thirds Of the members Of the Legislature to
call an extra session.
A proposition to declare ineligible, as Governor,
any person who had aided the rebellion. was de-
feated by decided majority
NORTH CAROLINA.
The Convention consumes great deal of time
in talking, and is slow to come to conclusions. The
Radicals and Conservatives are fairly and squarely
arrayed against each other. Much Of the past
week has been consumed in discussing measures
of relief, and giving aid to the Wilmington,' Char
lottc and Rutherford Railroad, by endorsing its
bonds. A bill has been passed providing for the
levy of tax to pay tho per diem of the members,
which seems to have had salutary effect, as the
subioined Ordinance was Immediately passed for
the "relef' Of the people. The Ordinance is to
take effect Immediately after its passage, and con-
tnue in force until the first day Of next july or un-
til the Constitution, to be adopted, shall 90 into
effect. Gen. Candy is requested to cause the Or
dinancc to be enforced. Here is the ''relief":
''That no court of law or equity Of this State
shall have jurisdiction of any suit or action found
ed on any contract made prior to the first day Of
May, 1865, Except actions against public officers,
executors, administrators guardians, trustees, and
others acting in fiducary capacity, and their sure
ties, for breach of their respective duties, by the
appropriation to their own use OF money, or prop
erty officially received by them, or other fraudu-
lent act or any action or process to revive or en-
force any Judgment heretofore recovered on any
contract, whether such action be now pending or
shall be commenced hereafter and whether such
process has been already issued or shall hereafter
be sued for and the sherifs, coroners, and con-
stables of this State having in their hands any final
process issued upon any judgment founded on any
such cause or action, are hereby commanded to
stay all proceeding upon the same, and return the
same to the upper courts.
An article of the Constitution has been adopted
requiring the Governor to be elected for term of
four years.
GEORGIA.
The Georgia Convention has also passed ere.
lief measure 1t denies jurisdiction to the courts
over all debts contracted prior to the surrender,
but leaving it discretionary with the majority of
the legislature to confer jurisdiction in all cases
as to the purchase of slaves. The next day after
the passage of this measure, an attempt was made
to reconsider The attempt however, proved a
failure.
A report of the Committee on the Executive,
fixing the Governors term of Office at four years,
has been adopted The franchise is fixed at six
months residence in the State and thirty days in
the County. Democratic with viml ,
LOUISIANA.
The Louisiana Convention has adopted sections
of the Constitution which provide that oil children
are to be admitted to the public schools without
distinction. No separate schools are to be estab-
lshed for the use of any ct Jr. All public institu