Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-07-02

and honest work, sooner or later, Will orlng
victory to your standards. No laurel wreaths
NAV crown the victor's brow, but ransomed
and redeemed Carolina, free, prosperous
and happy people, will attest to future gen;
erations that, worthy of your ancestry, and
true as they to duty and honor, you have
taken up the fight in the darkest hour OF ad.
versity, and faithfully and successfully fought
it out to victory. We conjure you, then, at
once, to organize, compact and work up the
Tax.payers' Union, until you anchor the State
safe in the harbor of assured peace and pros
perity. JAMES CHESN v l.,
Chairman, &c., in behalf Of Comm'ttee.
The constitution for the Tax. Unions, as
finally adopted, is as follows:
! /. The object Of the Tax Unions are the
reduction of taxation and the honest appro-
pration and expenditure Of the public funds.
2. There shall be in each county as many
Subordinate Tax Unions as may be deemed
necessary, but not less than one such Subor-
dinate Union for each township or ward.
There shall be one County Tax Union tor
each county, and one 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 Coun.
ty and the State Union shall be styled "Ihe
Tax Union of the State of South Carolina"
4. All taxpayers in this State are eligible
to membership of any one Subordinate lax
Union in the County in which they live.
5. Applications for membership must be
b. klo
Tax Union of - County. Such applica-
tions 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 Commit
tee of the Subordinate Union to which they
are addressed, which committee may report
thereon at any meeting of the Union, and
majority of the votes of the members present
shall be sufficient to elect.
6. The officers Of each Subordinate Union
shall be President, Vice-President, a Sec
retary, Treasurer and an Executive Com
mittee of FIVE members, including the Presi-
dent and Vice.President, who shall be mem.
bers of such committee er oficio.
7. The Subordinate Unions shall hold reg
ular monthly meetings, and shall have author
ity to hold special meetings as may be neces-
sary.
s. Each member of a Subordinate Union
shall pay to the Treasurer of such Union an
initiation fee of fifty cents, also such uniform
per centage, 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 Committe of such Union, with
the approval of the Union ; and such per cent
age shall be declared and collected before the
first day ofSeptember in each year.
9. The County Unions shall consist of two
delegates from each Subordinate Union, with
one delegate additional for every twenty
members beyond twenty in each Subordinate
Union.
10. The County Unions shall meet at the
respective Court Houses, on the 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.
II. The officers of the County Unions
shall be President, Vice-President, Sec.
retary and Treasurer, who shall be elected
at the first meeting, and shall hold office un.
til the first Monday in July in the ensuing
year, and until their successors shall be elect
ed and shall qualify.
~. The Executive Committee Of the Coun-
ty Unions shall consist of the Chairmen Of the
Executive COMMITTEES of the Subordinate Un-
ions, who shall be es oficio members of the
County Union, together with the President of
the County Union, which County Executive
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
Tuesday in November, and at such other
times and places as the State Executive Com
mittee may appoint: Provided, That the
first meeting Of the State Union shall be held
at such time as may be appointed by the Ex-
ecutive Committee of the Tax-Payers' Con-
vention.
ID. The officers of the State Union shall be
a President, three Vice-P Presidents, Secreta.
ry, Treasurer, an Executive Committee and
such other officers as the Union may deter
mine to appoint
Is. The State Executive Committee shall
consist of two members from each Congress
sonal District, and the President of the
State Union. The members Of the State Un-
ion from the County Unions of the Counties
each Congressional District, shall
nominate the members 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, shall be paid, up
on the order of the Chairman Of the State
Executive Committee, by the County Unions
of the Congressional District which he repre-
sents.
18. The Safe Executive Committee shall
make such an assessment as they think neces-
sary, upon the County Unions, which assess.
ments shall be in proportion to the amount of
the last tax laid for general State and County
purposes in each County, and shall not exceed
/. per cent. 81 the amount of such tax; and
the Executive Committees of the several
County Unions, in order to meet such assess
ment and defray their other expenses, shall
make and collect an assessment, in like pro-
portion, upon the Subordinate Unions.
19. All funds received by the Treasurer of
the State Union shall be deposited by him, in
his name as Treasurer, in bank to be desig-
mated 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 deposit.
90 The State Executive Committee are all-