The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-12-25
THE NEW CONSTITUTION
TEXT OF ccAG INST TRUMSNT ADOPT
ED BY 7AE STATE CONVENTION.
TIL, Found .:on of the Rights of the Citi

ED BY 7ae STATE CONVENTION.
TIL. Found .,:on of the Rights of the Cit'-
zen and t.:.. Powers of the state Govern
meut.
ARTICLE IN.
CORPORATIONS.
Section I. The term corporation as
used in this article includes all assocla-
tons and ,intstock companies having
powers and privileges not possessed by
individuals or partnerships and eN,
cludes municipal corporations
Sec. 2. No charter of incorporation
shall be granted, changed or amended
by special law, except in the case OF
such charitable, educational, penal or
reformatory corporations as may be
under tae control of the State. or may
be provided for in this Constitution.
but the general assembly shall pro-
vide by general laws for changing Or
amending existing charters, and for
the organization of all corporations
hereafter t. be created, and any such
law so passed. SIS well as all charters
now existing or hereafter created.
shall be subject to future repeal or al
teration; provided that the general as
sembly may by two-thirds vote OF
each house on concurrent resolution
allow bill for special charter to be
introduced, and when so introduced
may pass the same as other bills.
Sec. 8. All railroad, express, canal
and other corporations engaged IN
transportation for hire and all tele-
graph and other corporations engaged
in the business of transmitting intell-
gence for hire are common carriers in
their respective lines of business, and
are subject to liability and taxation as
such. It shall be unlawful for any
such corporation to make any contract
relieving it of its common law haolll-
ty or limiting the same, in reference
to the carriage of passengers.
Sec. 4. Every corporation organized
or doing business in this State, other
than religious, educational or benevo-
lent associations, shall have and main
tain at least one agent in this State
unon whom process NAV be served.
and at least one public office for the
transaction of its business; Provided: ::
This section shall notapply to mercan-
tile corporations: Provided, That moth
ing contained in this section shall be
construed to prohibit the general as
sembly from providing for the service
of process on any agent of a corpora
ton so as to bind such corporation.
Sec. 5. No discrimination in charges
or facilities for transportation OF the
same classes of freight or passengers,
or for the TRANSMISSION of intelligence
within this State, or coming from or
going to any other State, shall be made
by any railroad or other transporta-
ton or transmission company between
places or persons.
Persons and property transported by
any railroad or any other transporta-
ton or transmission company or cor
poration, shall be delivered at any sta
ton, landing or port at charges not
exceeding the charges for the tranSpor-
tation of persons and property OF the
same class, in the same direction, to
any more distant station, landing or
port. Excursion and Communication
tickets may be issued at special rates.
This section shall not prevent the rail-
road commission from making such
competitive rates as shall, IN their
Judgment, be just and equitable be
tween the railroads and the public, at
all functional and competitive points
or at points where water competition
controls the traffic or at points where
the competition of points located IN
other States may make necessary the
prescribing of different rates for the
protection of the commerce OF this
State.
Sec. 6. Any railroad or other trans
portalion corporation, and any tele
graph or Other transmitting corpora
ton. organized under the laws Of this
State. shall have the ri ght to connect
its roads or lines, at the State line,
with those in other States, and shall
have the right to intersect with or
cross any other railroad, street rail
way, transportation road or transmit.
ting ine, and shall each receive and
transport the freight, passengers; cars
Qoaded or EN- pty) and messages dellv
cred to it by another without delay or
discrimination.
Sec. Z. No railroad, or other trans
portation company, and no telegraph
or other transmitting corporation, or
the lessees, purchasers or managers OF
any such corporation, shall consoll-
dete the stock, property or franchises
of such corporation with, or lease or
purchase the works or franchises OF,
or in any way control, any other rail
road or other transportation, telegraph
or other transmitting company own
ing or having under its control a par
allel or competing line; and the ques-
ton whether railroads or other trans
portation, telegraph or other transmit
ting companies are parallel or compel
ing lines shall, when demanded by the
party complainant, be decided by a
Jury as in other civil causes.
Sec. S. The general assembly shall
not grant to any foreign corporation
or association a license to build, oper-
ate or lease any railroad in this State;
but in all cases where a railroad is to
be putt or operated, or is now being
operated, in this State, and the same
shall be partly in this State and partly
in another State, or in other States,
the owners or projectors thereof shall
first become incorporated under the
laws of this State; nor shall any for
oo,,,o,o4;o,, ~. association lease