The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-02-04
PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONVENTION.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONVENTION.
SIXTEENTH DAY.
The convention assembled at u o'clock III.
PRAYER by Rev. Ed. Edwards. The rnll ~''o
called and journal read
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
The following committees made lengthy re-
nolts. which, without being read, were made
the special order for Wednesday, VIZ: Commit.
tee on Bill of Rights; on the Legislative Pare
OF the Constitutions; on the Judiciary, ana Oh
Education.
NOT $11 PER DAY.
B. F. Randolph (colored), said he had OBJ
served that the members OF the conVenton
were everywhere reported as receiving eleven
dollars a day. and in order that the matter
might be understood properly, he offered the
That the President of the convention be re-
oneated TO inform the Associated Press at New
York that the actual pay of the deleg ates %
fins convention is only about seven dollars ana
fifty cents per diem in United States currency.
The resolution was laid upon the table.
CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATION.
B. o. Duncan (white), from NewbeTy, Of
fered the following resolution, which was
ResoIued, That committee of two from each
Congressional District in the State, as yhey e1-
isted prior to the act OF secession, In 1851, be
appointed by the President to inquire and re-
port to this convention the number CT repre-
sentatives which will be proper, according 10
the present law Of the United States, for thls
States, and that it shall also report the suita-
Bile construction Of Congressional D1stlcts ac-
cordlnp to the number Of representatives al
lowed them.
GUARDIANS, TRUSTEES, EFT AL. es
n nnncan also offered resolution with
a preamble that, aohereas, q large porpor-
tion Of the executors, administrators, guar
dams, and other fduciary agents appointed Id
this State prior to and during the rebellion,
either actually did or fraudulently pretended to
have invested the funds contided to their care
in the securities of the rebel government, or OF
some one OF the rebel States, for the purpose OF
CARRYING on the war, &C.; and, totereos, the in
yestment thus made was not only treason
against the United States but q fra1d upon
the rights Of the persons whom they were ap-
pointed to represent, and who were Legally IN
competent to protect there own lntere sts,
Resotued, That all investments OF ine 1unds
OF estates Of infants, MANNED women, lolots,
lunatics &C., in the securities of the late rebel
government, by executors, administrators,
guardians, masters and commissioners In
equity, trustees, and other fduciary agents,
ere and shall forever after be absolutely helo
to be null and void, and under no plea or pre-
tence shall any such investment avail IN any
court of law or equity IN this State TO par or
hinder recovery in lawful money OF the united
States.
Referred to the Committee on the judiciary.
PETITION FROM BEAUFORT.
r. G. Holiness of Beaufort, presented petit
ton from citizens OF Beaufort praying the
transfer OF the courthouse from GillisonVlue
| to that place,
Referred to the Committee on Petitions.
QUALIFICATIONS OF VOTERS.
! J.K. Jillson offered O resolution: defining
| the qualifications Of voters in all elections Id
the State. Referred to the Comralttee on
| Franchise.
| THE MILITIA.
BF. Randolph offered resolution, providing
for the organization of the militia; but as the
committee on that subject have already ma
| tured system OF militia, op motion OF w. ).
Whipper, the motion was laid on the table.
NO LANDS TO BE GIVEN AwAi.
J.H. Rainey, from Georgetown, offered the
following, which was adopted:
ResotUed, That this convention 10 hereby
declare to the people Of South Carolina, and to
the world, that they have no land Oh lands at
their disposal, and, in order to dieabuse the
minds of all persons whatever in the Slate
who may be expecting distribution Of lands
BY the Government Of the United States,
through the Bureau OF Freedmen, Refugees
and Abandoned Lands, do further declare that
no act Of confs cation has been passed by the
Congress Of the United States, and it is the
belief of this convention there never will be;
and that the only manner by which hnd can be