The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-12-25
ARTICLE XVII.
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.

-NlSCELLANEOCS MAl1EhS.
Section /. No person shall be elect
ed or appointed to any office in this
State unless he possess the qualifca-
tions of an elector: Provided, that the
provisions of this section shall not ap.
ply to the offices Of state Librarian and
departmental clerks, to either Of which
offices any woman, a resident Of the
State two years, who has attained the
age of 81 years shall be eligible.
Sec. 2. The general assembly may
direct by law, in what manner claims
against the State may be established
and adjusted.
Sec. 3. Divorces from the bonds of
matrimony shall not be allowed in
this State.
Sec. 4. No person who denies the
existence of a Supreme Being shall
hold any office under this Constitu,
ton.
Sec. 5. The printing of the laws,
journals, bills, legislative documents
and papers for each branch of the
general assembly, with the printing
required for the executive and other
departments of the State, shall be let,
on contract, in such manner as shall
be prescribed by law.
Sec. 6. The general assembly shall
provide for the removal Of all causes
which may be pending when this
Constitution goes into effect to court:
created by the same.
Sec. T. No lottery shall ever be al
lowed, or be advertised by newspa
pers, or otherwise, or its tickets be
sold in this State; and the general as
sembly shall provide by law at its
next session for the enforcement OF
this provision.
Sec. s. 1t shall be unlawful for any
person holding an Office of honor,
trust or profit to engage in gambling,
or betting on games of chance; anc
any such officer, upon conviction
thereof, shall become thereby disquali
fed from the further exercise of the
functions of his Office, and the Office
of said person shall become vacant,
as in the case of resignation or death.
Sec. 8. The real and personal prop
erty of a woman held at the time OF
her marriage, or that which she may
thereafter acquire, either by gift,
grant, inheritance, devise or other.
wise, shall be her separate property,
and she shall have all the rights Incl
dent to the same to which an unmared
woman or man is entitled She shall
have the power to contract and be
contracted with in the same manner
as if she were unmarried.
Sec. 10. All laws now in force in
this State and not repugnant to this
Constitution shall remain and be en-
forced until altered or repealed by the
general assembly, or shall expire by
their own limitations.
Sec. II. That no inconvenience may
arise from the change in the Constitu-
ton of this State, and in order to car
ry this Constitution into complete op-
Grafton, it is hereby declared:
First. That all laws in force in this
State, at the time of the adoption of
this Constitution, not inconsistent
Herewith, and constitutional when
enacted, shall remain in full force un-
til altered or repealed by the general
assembly or expire by their own limi-
tation. Ali ordinances passed and
ratified at this convention shall have
the same force and effect as if includ.
ed in and constituting part Of this
Constitution.
Second. All writs, actions, causes of
action, proceedings, prosecutions, and
rights of individuals, of bodies corpo.
rate and of the State, when not incon-
sistent with this Constitution, shall
continue as valid.
Third. The provisions of all laws
which are inconsistent with this Con-
stitution shall cease upon its adoption,
except that all laws which are incon-
sistent with such provisions of this
Constitution as require legislation to
enforce them shall remain in force
until such legislation is had.
Fourth. All fines, penalties, forfeit
ures and escheats accruing to the State
of South Carolina under the Constitu-
ton and laws heretofore in force shall
accrue to the use of the State of South
Carolina under this Constitution, ex-
cept as herein provided.
Fifth. All recognizances, obligations
and all other instruments entered into
or executed before the adoption of this
Constitution to the State, or to any
county, township, city or town therein,
and all fines, taxes. penalties and for
FIXTURES due or owing to this State or
to any county, township, city or town
therein and all writs, prosecutions, ac-
tions and proceedings, except as here
in otherwise provided, shall continue
and remain unaffected by the adop-
ton of this Constitution. All indict-
ments which shall have been found,
or may hereafter be found. for any
crime or offence committed before the
adoption of this Constitution may be
prosecuted as if no change had been
made, except as otherwise provided
herein.
Sixth. All officers, State, executive,
legislative, judicial, circuit, district,
county, township and municipal, who
may be in office at the adoption OF this
Constitution or who may be elected
before the election of their successors
as herein provided, shall hold their
respective offices until their terms
have expired and until their successors
are elected or appointed and qualified
as provided in this Constitution, un-
less sooner removed as may be provi-
ded by law, and shall receive the COM
pensation now fixed by the statute
laws in force at the adoption of this
Constitution.
Seventh. At all elections held for
members of the general assembly in
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