The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-07-02
The Constitution Of the Tax Unions In sne
State Of South Carolina.


O. There shall be in each county as many
subordinate Tax Unions as may be deemed
necessary, but not less than one such subordi-
nate union for each township or ward. There
shall be one County Tax Union for each coun-
ty, and one State Tax Union for the State.
8. Each subordinate Tax Union shall have
such name or designation as the members
thereof may select, but each County Union
shall be designated by the name of the county,
and the State Union shall be styled ''The Tax
Union of the State of South Carolina"
4. All taxpayers in this State are eligible to
membership of any one subordinate Tax Union
in the county in which they live.
5. Application for membership must be made
in writing and addressed to the - Tax M
Union of - county. Such application
shall be signed by the applicant, or by his
authority, and shall give the applicants full
name and address. The applications must be
submitted to the executive committee of the
Subordinate Union to which they are address,
ed, which committee may report thereon at
any meeting of the Union, and a majority OF
the votes of the members present shall be suf-
fcient to elect
g. The officers of each Subordinate Union
shall be a president, vice-president, secretary,
treasurer, and an executive committee of five
members, including the president and vice
president who shall be members of such com.
mittee, er o6fcio.
2. The Subordinate Unions shall hold regu-
lar monthly meetings, and shall have authority
to hold special meetings as may be necessary.
8. Each member Of the Subordinate Union
shall pay to the treasurer of such union an
Initiation fee of fifty cents; and, also, such
uniform percentage, not exceeding two per
cent, of the last tax laid upon him for general
State and county purposes, as may be called
for by the executive committee of such Union,
with the approval of the Union; and such
percentage shall be declared and collected be-
fore the first day of September in each year.
9. The County Unions shall consist of two
delegates from each subordinate Union, with
one delegate additional for every twenty men,
bers beyond twenty in each Subordinate
Union.
10. The County Unions shall meet at the
respective courthouses on tie first Monday in
July, October, January and April in each year,
with authority to hold special meetings upon
the call of the executive committee of the
County Union.
IL. The officers of the County Unions shall
be president. ce-president, secretary and
treasurer, who shall be elected at the first meet
ing and shall hold Office until the 1st Monday
in July in the ensuing year, and until their
Successors shall be elected and shall qualify.
II. The executive committee of the County
Unions shall consist of the chairman of the
executive committees of the Subordinate
Unions, who shall be er o6Scio members of the
County Union together with the president of
committee shall have power to elect its own
officers.
13. The State Union shall consist of three
delegates from each County Union, and shall
meet annually in Columbia on the fourth Tues
day in November, and at such other times and
places as the State Executive Committee may
appoint; provided that the first meeting of
the State Union shall be held at such time as
may be appointed by the executive committee
of the Taxpayers Convention.
H. The officers of the State Union shall be
a president, three vice-presidents, a secretary,
treasurer, an executive committee, and such
other officers as the union may determine to
appoint.
is. The State executive committee shall con-
sist of two members from each Congressional
district, and the president of the State Union,
The members of the State Union from the
County Unions of the counties composing each
Congressional district shall nominate the mem
bers of the State Executive Committee from
that district.
16. The State Executive Committee shall
elect its own officers, and shall meet at such
times and places as the chairman, in his own
discretion, or upon the written request of two
members of the committee shall appoint.
II. The actual expenses of each member of
the State. Executive Committee, in attending
meetings of the committee ,eshall be paid, upon
the order of the chairman of the State Execu-
tive Committee, by the County Unions of the
Congressional district which he represents.
Is The State Executive Committee shall
make such assessment as they think necessary,
upon the County Unions, which assessment
shall be in proportion to the amount of the
last tax laid for general State and county pur-
poses in each county, and shall not exceed one
and one-half per cent. of the amount of such
tax; and the executive committees of the
several County, Unions, in order to meet such
assessment and defray their other expenses,
proportion, upon the Subordinate Unions.
19. ALI funds received by the treasurer of the
State Union shall be deposited by him in his
name as treasurer, in bank to be designated
by the president of the State Union, and no
money shall be drawn except upon the draft OF
the treasurer countersigned by the chairman
of the State Executive Committee, notice of
which provision shall be given to the bank
which shall be designated as the place of de-
posit.
20. The State Executive Committee are au-
thorized to pay the treasurer, as compensation
for his services, if they shall deem it necessary,
a commission not exceeding Il per cent on
all money received by him, and 1t per cent. on
all money paid out by him.
81. There shall be prepared by each Suborr-
dinate Union full and correct roster OF such
Union, giving the name and residence of each
member, and also record of the names of the
taxpayers within the township, ward or other
district in which the said Union works. One
copy of the roster and record shall be kept by
the secretary of the Subordinate Union, open
for the inspection of the members and a du-
plicate copy of such roster and record shall be
sent to the executive committee of the County
Union, who shall prepare therefrom general
roster and record for the county. A duplicate
eon4 of each county roster and record shall be