The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-02-07

EIoHTRENTIf DAY. !.

Convention assembled af 10 2o'clock.
Prayer by Rey. VIM. Thomas.
| = Afesolutioni was offered by J. M.
Allen; of Groenville, that the Presit
dent be requested to draw from the,
Treasury OF the State $50, 600 for the;
purpose OF paying the per diem and
mileage OF officers and members of
the Convention. and that the same be
paid ON Saturday, at 3 o'clock P. NJ.
Adopted. T ~
b. +. Randolph offered the follow
ing: a1.,,l, y...i ~
be appointed to confer with Gen.
Candy in regard to plan for voting
upon the ratification of the forth
coming Constitution, and to report
the result to this Convention.
The hour for the consideration of
the special order having arrived, the
Convention took up the report Of the
Committee on the Bill of Rights;
which received its first reading, and
was laid over under the rules until
tomorrow. The reports of the
Committee Oh the Judiciary and
Committee on Education were dis
posed of in n similar manner, and,
on motion of f. j. Moses, Jr., were
made the special orders for half-past
IL o'clock.
The Charleston Neus publishes the
following summary of these docu-
ments:
The existing Constitution of the
State is proposed to be materially
changed, both as regards matter and
arrangement. First, it is set forth
that call men are born free md
equal;" second, that slavery shall not
hereafter exist; third, that power is
vested in and derived only from the
people; fourth, that the doctrine of
States rights is forever dead and
buried; fifth, that under no pretext
shall another attempt be made to
dissolve the Union; and, sixth, that
all citizens shall possess equal civil
and political rights. Hereafter no
person shall be imprisoned for debt,
and a homestead shall be exempted
from seizure or sale. Private and
corporate property is to be inviolate,
yet laws may be made securing right
of way over lands of either persons
or corporations for purposes of in
ternal improvement, but just COM
pensation, in all cases, is first to be
made to the owners. It is provided
that the power of suspending the
laws ought never to be exercised,
save by the Legislature, or the au-
thority derived from it. Neither the
legislative, executive nor judicial
department of the Government, shall
in any wise trench upon the func-
tions and powers of the others. Any
individual who shall fight duel, or
send or accept challenge, or is in
any way concerned in fighting duel,
is prescribed from holding any office
of honor or trust in the State, be-
sides making him liable to such other
punishment as the law may prescribe.
No property qualification shall be
necessary for an election to or the
holding of any Office. No Office is to
be created, the appointment to which
shall be for longer time than dur
ing good behavior. All navigable
streams are to be public highways,
free to the citizens of the United
States, without any imposition of tax
or toll, and no owner of wharf,
erected on the shores of navigable
stream, is permitted to charge for the
use of the said wharf, unless ex-
pressly authorized to do so by the
Legislature.
The judicial power is vested in
Supreme Court, in two Circuit
Courts-to wit: a Court of Common
Pleas having civil Jurisdiction, and
Court of General Sessions having
criminal jurisdiction only-and in
District and Probate Courts and JUS
tices of the Peace. The Supreme
Court is to consist of three judges,
who are to be elected by the General
Assembly for the term of six years,
and so classified that one of the
judges shall go out of Office every two
years, the judge holding the shortest
term of Office under this classification
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