Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-07-06
TILE EXTRA SESSION.

The EXTRA SESSION.
Agreeably to the proclamation of Governor
Hagood convening the Legislature of South
Carolina, that body met in extra session, in
the State Capitol, OH Tuesday the 9th ultimo,
at - O'Clock NJ. Ninety members of the
House answered to their names at roll call, and
nearly every Senator was present. Major
James F. Hart, the newly elected Senator from
York, appeared at the bar of the Senate and
took the prescribed oath.
The Governor addressed a message to the
two houses, briefly stating the object for which
the Legislature had been convened, viz. For
the purpose of redistricting the State so as to
conform to the increased Congressional repre-
sentation to which it is entitled by virtue of
recent legislation of the Federal Congress,
based upon the advance of the State in popu-
lation, which entities South Carolina to two
additional members of the House of Represen-
tatives Of the United States.
The Legislature went to work in earnest,
and was to have adjourned yesterday, just one
week after assembling.
The following is a summary of the work
completed:
Bill to divide the State into seven Congress
sonal districts, as follows:
First District, composed of parts Of Charles
ton and Berkeley, to wit: The Parish of St.
Philips and St. Michael's, Mount Pleasant,
MoutrieYille, st. James Goosecreek (betWeen
the Ashley River and the South Carolina Rail-
way and below ColletOn) and the town OF Sum-
mervlle part of Colleton county, embracing
the townships or Bells, Burns, earn, Dor
chester, George, Gngham, Hayward, Kalzar,
Sheridan and Verdier part OF Orangeburg
county between the South Edisto and -Four
Hole Swamp, being the Fork of Edisto and
Middle Orange and the county of Lexington.
Second District, composed Of Hampton coun-
ty. part of COleton county embracing Broxton
and Warren townships Barnwell, Aiken and
Edgefeld counties.
Third District, composed of Abbeville, New
berry, Anderson, Pickens and Oconee coun-
ties.
Fourth District, composed of Greenville
county, Spartanburg county except White
plains and Limestone townships, Laurens
county, Union county except Goudeysvllle and
DraytOnville, Fairfield county and that part of
Richland county embracing Upper, Columbia
and Centre townships.
Fifth District, composed of York, Chester
and Lancaster counties, part OF Union county
embracing Goudeysville and Draytonville, part
of fSpartanburgcountye embracing White Plains
and Limestone townships and Chesterfield and
Kershaw counties.
Sixth District, composed of Clarendon coun-
ty and that part of Williamsburg county en-
bracing the Town of Kingstree, Sumter town.
ship, Lees Lake and Johnson's townships,
and Darlington, Marlboro, Marion and Horny
counties.
Seventh District, composed of Georgetown
county, all of Williamsburg county except the
town of Kingstree, Sumter, Lees, Lake and
Johnson's townships, Sumter county, that
part of Richland embracing Lower township,
that part of Orangeburg county embracing
Amelia, Lyons, Pine Grove, Goodleys, Poplar,
Providence and Vance's townships, all of the
counties of Charleston and Berkeley not in the
First District. part of Colleton county, en-
bracing Blake, Lowndes, Frazer, Adams Run,
Collins and Glover townships, and all OF Beau
fort county.
SEC. 2. In every case in which under the
provisions of this Act the townships or parts
of townships of any county may not all be in
the same Congressional district, it shall be the
duty of the proper board of county canvassers
of such county, in canvassing the votes OF
said county, to report separately the result OF
the vote of such township or parts of town.
ship for the Congressional district to which
they may respectively belong.
SEC. 3. In any case in which voting pre-
cinct may form part of more than one Congress
siOnal district, the managers OF election for
such precinct shall provide separate boxes for
every Congressional district within which the
said precinct may be, and each voter at such
precinct shall deposit his ballot for member of |
Congress in the box provided for the Congress !!