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COUNTY GOVERNMENT.

/. Each organized county shall be 6
body corporate with such powers and
immunities thatshall be established by
law. All suits and proceedings by o,
against the county shall be in the
name thereof.
9. No organized county shall eve,
be reduced by the organization of new
counties to less than four hundred
square miles. No new county shall be
formed containing less than four hun
dred square miles or containing less
than eight hundred inhabitants, &C:
cording to the last State or national
census for which returned less than
three million dollars worth of taxable
property, as shown by the last preced'
ing tax returns. Before application
for the formal formation of the pro,
posed new county shall be made, and
not until then, a majority of the legal
voters of fractional part of the pro-
posed new county shall each separate
ly vote in favor of such new county.
8. Each county be divided into
townships, and all such townships
shall be declared bodies corporate.
The townships as they now exist shall
be so declared and such others as the
Legislature may hereafter create: Pro
vided, that no township shall contain
less than twenty-five square miles and
shall be as near square as practical.
4. Each county shall elect a County
Judge for a term of four years; he
shall have jurisdiction in all matters
testamentary, dover, partition, home
stead, minors, persons non compos
mentis and jurisdiction in all criminal
prosecutions below the grade of felony,
under such rules and limitations as
may be fixed by law, and shall also
elect a sheriff, county clerk and coun-
ty solicitor for a term of four years,
whose respective duties shall be pre-
scribed by law.
S. A board of county supervisors
shall be organized in each county,
composed of the various townships
chairmen, whose power shall be pre-
scribed by law.
6. There shall be in each township
FIVE directors, to be elected or appoint.
ed, as the law may direct it, one of
whom shall be a committing magis-
trate, and who shall be ex- -officio chair
man of the board of township direct
ors. Said director shall have general
control of the roads, bridges, schools
and the general welfare of such town
ships under such limitations as may
be prescribed by law. But no tax levy
made by said director shall be legal
unless ten days public notice of such
levy shall be given, and not then un.
less said levy shall be ratified by ma
jority of the legal voters of such
township.
OTHER MEASURES.
By Mr.. Clayton, of Florence: To
exclude convicts from competition
with honest labor.
By Mr.. Glenn, of Chester: To fix
the school tax at two mills, with the
right reserved to school districts to
the same by special taxes.
By Mr.. w. D. Evans, of Marlboro :
To limit the corporate bonded indebt-
edness of each county to eight per
cent. of the value of all the taxable
property therein.
By Mr.. Anderson (colored), of
Georgetown: To require the Legisla-
ture to compel all children between
the ages of Z and ~ years to attend a
public school.
By Mr.. Sullivan, of Anderson: To
require the Legislature to let out the
public printing to the lowest respon-
sible bidder.
By Mr.. A. 81. White, of York: To
call the counties districts.
By Mr.. Wharton, of Laurens: To
require the General Assembly, at its
next session, to make permanent ap-
preparation for disabled and aged Con-
federate soldiers and their widows.
By Mr.. Buist, of Greenville: To
prohibit State, county, city, town or
township aid to any college, school,
orphan house or other institution
which is wholly or in part under the
direction or control of any church, or
of any religious or sectarian denomin-
alton, society or organization.
yMr. Reed, of Beaufort: To punish
and prevent lynchfhg. This ordi-
nance authorizes the governor to re-
move any sheriff from whom a pris-
oner is seized and lynched, and to call
out the militia to prevent lynchings.
By Mr.. Clayton, of Florence: TO
the judiciary. This ordi-
nance retains all the present courts
except the Probate AMI the Trial JUS
tice. For these it substitutes county
court.
By Mr.. Lybrand, of Lexington: To
provide for the supervision of public
instruction. The free schools are put
under the management of a State
board of education, composed of three
members, the comptroller general, and
two members to be elected by the Legis-
lature. The constitutional tax is fixed
at 2t mills, and each taxpayer is privi-
legged to designate the school to which
his tax money shall 60.
By Mr.. Lybrand: To authorize the
State government to prohibit the
manufacture or sale of intoxicants,
and, in the exercise of the police pow
er, to engage in such sale.
By Mr.. Gooding, of Hampton: To
provide for the care and control of the
penal and charitable institutions of
the State.
By Mr.. McWhite, of Florence:
For the same purpose, and also to
regulate convict labor.
FEMALE SUFFRAGISTS.
At the night session the Convention
heard addresses from Miss Clara M.
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