The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1895-12-18
ARTICLE VI.
JURISPRUDENCE.

Section l. The general assembly,
shall pass laws allowing differences to
be decided by arbitrators, to be ap:
pointed by the parties who may choose
that mode of adjustment.
Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of tie
general assembly to pass laws for tie
change of venue in all cases, civil and
criminal, over which the circuit counts.
have original jurisdiction, upon a
proper showing, supported by affidavit,
that o fair and impartial trial canlot
be had in the county where such acton
or prosecution was commenced. hea
State shall have the same right to mGe
for change of venue that defeM-
ant has for such offences as the geneal
assembly may prescribe. Unless q.
change OF venue be had under the pD-
visions Of this article the defendant
shall be tried IN the county where tie
offence was committed Provide,
however, That no change Of yene
shall be granted in criminal cases uni
after true bill has been found by To
grand jury: And provided, furthe,
That if change be ordered it shall b
to a county in the same Judicial ci-
cult.
Sec. 8. Justice shall DC administered (
in uniform mode of pleading withou
distinction between law and equity.
Sec. 4. Every statute shall be pub
lie law, unless otherwise declared in tn
statute itself.
Sec. 5. The general assembly, a
i3s first session after the adoption o.
this Constitution, shall provide for the
appointment or election OF a COM
missioner, whose duty it shall be to
collect ard revise all the general stat
ute law of this State then OF force as
well as that which shall be passed from
time to time, and to properly index
and arrange the said statutes when SO
passed. And the said commissioner
hall reduce into systematic code the,
general statutes, including the code Of
civil procedure, with all the amend
ments thereto, and shall, on the first
day of the session for the year l90l
and at the end of every subsequent
period of not more than 10 years, re-
port the result of his labors to the gen.
eral assembly, with such recommenda-
tions and suggestions asto the abrldge-
mcnt and amendments as may be.
deemed necessary or proper. Said
renort. when ready to be made, shall
be printed and copy thereof laid up
on the desk of each member of both.
houses of the general assembly on thea
first day of the first session, but shall
not be taken up for consideration un-
, til the next session of said general as
sembly. The said code shall be de-
clared by the general assembly, IN an
act passed according to the forms IN
this Constitution for the enactment OF
laws, to be the only general statutory
law of the State; but no alterations or
additions to any Of the laws therein
contained shall be made except by bill
passed under the formalities hereto
fore prescribed for the passage of laws.
Provision shall be made by law for I'LL
ling vacancies, regulating the terms Oh
office and the compensation OF sald~
commissioner, not exceeding sou per
snnum. and imposing such other du-
ties as may be desired. And the gen.
eral as. embly shall by committee IN
auire into the progress Of his work at
each session.
Sec. 6. In the case of any prisoner
lawfully in the charge, custoday or
control of any officer, State, county or
municipal, being seized and taken from
said officer through his ne 5lisence, per
mission or connivance, by o mob'or
other unlawful assemblage OF persons,
and at their hands suffering bodIiy y1o-
lence or death, the said officer shall be.
deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and,
upon true bill found, shall be deposed
from his office pending his trial, andA
upon conviction shall forfeit his Office,
and shall, unless pardoned by *he gov
ernor. be ineligible to hold any Office,
of trust or profit within this State. 1t
shall be the duty of the prosecuting
attorney within whose circuit or county
the otfense may be committed to forth
with institute a prosecution against
said officer, who shall be tried in such
comfy in the same circuit other than
the one in which the offence was COM
mitted, as the attorney general may
elect. The fess and mileage of all ma
te.ial witnesses, both for the State and
for the defense, shall be paid by the
State treasurer, in such manner as may
be provided by law: Provided, LIZ
all cases of lynching when death en-
sues, the county where such lynchlng