Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-04-03

To ratify the amendment to the Constitution Of
the State Of South Carolina, relative to the in
crease Of the State Debt.
Whereas the constitution of the State of
South Carolina provides that an amendment
or amendments may be made to the same /;
and that such amendment or amendments
shall be agreed to by two-thirds Of the men,
bers elected to each house, such amendment
or amendments to be entered on the journals,
respectively, with the yeas and nays taken
thereon and that the same shall be submit
ted to the qualified electors of the State at the
next general election thereafter for represent
atives and if a majority of the electors quail
fed to vote for members of the General As
sembly, voting thereon, shall vote in favor of
such amendment or amendments; and two.
thirds of each branch of the next General
Assembly shall, after such an election, and
before another, ratify the same amendment or
amendments by yeas and nays, the same shall
become part of the constitutions: Provided,
That such amendment or amendments shall
have been read three times, on three several
days, in each house; and whereas the General
Assembly, at its last session, did, in each
branch, pass joint resolution proposing an
amendment to the constitution of the State of
South Carolina, which was agreed to by two
thirds of its members, to wit:
Article XVI. ITO the end that the public
debt Of South Carolina may not hereafter be
increased, without the due consideration and
free consent of the people of the State, the
General Assembly is hereby forbidden to
create any further debt or obligation, either
by the loan of the credit of the State, by
guaranty, endorsement, or otherwise, except
for the ordinary and current business of the
State, without first submitting the question
as to the creation of any such new debt,
guaranty, endorsement or loan of its credit to
the people of this State at a general State
election and, unless two-thirds of the quail
fed voters of this State, voting on the ques-
ton, shall be in favor of a further debt, qua
ranty, endorsement or loan of its credit, none
such shall be created or made"
And whereas the said proposed amendment
has been submitted to the electors qualif ed
to vote for members of the General Assembly
at "the next general election" following the
action of the General Assembly, and ma
iority of the said electors have voted in favor
of the same; therefore,
Be it resolved by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the State of South Carolina,
now met and sitting in General Assembly, and
by the authority of the same:
That the amendment to the constitution of
the State of South Carolina, proposed and
agreed to by two-thirds of the members of
each branch of the last General Assembly,
and voted for by majority of the electors
qualified to vote for members Of the General
Assembly at the last general election, to wit:
Article XVI. To the end that the public
debt of South Carolina may not hereafter be
increased without the due consideration and
free consent of the people of the State, the
General Assembly is hereby forbidden to
create any further debt or obligation, either
by the loan of the credit of the State, by qua
ranty, endorsement or otherwise, except for
the ordinary and current business of the State,
without first submitting the question as to the
creation of any such new debt, guaranty, en-
dorsement or loan of its credit to the people
of this State, at general State election and,
unless two-thirds of the qualified voters Of
this State, voting on the question, shall be in
favor ola further debt, guaranty, endorsement
or loan of its credit, none shall be created or
made, be, and the same is hereby, ratified and
made part of the constitution Of the State
of South Carolina.
Approved January 20, A. D. 1873.