The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-09-17

! the age of 30 years, and been a
resident of this State for five years
next preceding his election. or from
the adoption of this Constitution.
In all cases decided by the Supreme
! Court concurrence OF three of the
Judges shall be necessary to a decision.
In all elections to be made by the
people of this State, or of any part
thereof, for civil or political offices,
every person shall be entitled to vote
who has the following qualifications, to-
wit: Heshall be free man who has at
tanned the age of 81 years, and is not a
pauper, nor nou-cOmmissioned officer
or private soldier of the army, nor a
seama nor marine of the navy of the
United States. He shall for the two
years next preceding the day OF election
have been a citizen of this State. or fo-
the same period an emigrant from Eu-
become q citizen of the United
States according to the Consti-
tuition and laws of the United States.
He shall have resided in this State for
at least two years next preceding the
day of election, and for the last six
months OF that time in the county in
which he offers to vote, and who can
read and write in the English Ian
guage: "ided, that an Act of the
legislator. ueclaring any person of
sufficient i. telligence to exercise the
right of suffrage shall be deemed the
equivalent of ability to read and write
in the English language Provided,
further, that the General Assembly
may, by requiring registry Of voters,
or other suitable legislation, guard
against frauds in elections and usurpa-
tions of the right of suffrage, may i'm
pose disqualification to vote as pun
ishment for crime, and may prescribe
additional qualifications for voters in
municipal elections.
All civil officers whose authority is
limited to a single judicial county,
single election district or part of
either, shall be appointed, ho.d their
office, be removed from Office, and,
In addition to liability to impeach-
ment, may be punished for official
misconduct, In such manner as the
General Assembly, previous to their
appointment, may provide.
any civil officer shall become dis
abled from discharging the duties of
his Office. by reason of any permanent
bodily or mental intirmity, his office
may be declared to be vacant, by joint
resolution, agreed to by two-thirds of
the whole representation in each
House of the General Assembly: Pro
vided, that such resolution shall con-
tain the grounds for the proposed re-
house, a copy of it shall be served Oh
the officer, aud a hearing be allowed
him.
All other officers shall be elected at
each general election and shall hold
their offices for four years.
The trial by jury as heretofore used
in this, State, and the liberty of the
press shall be forever inviolably pre-
served. But the General Assembly
shall have power to determine the
number Of persons who shall constitute
the jury in inferior Courts, and may
dispense with the grand jury in such
cases as to 1t may seem advisable.
The General Assembly shall impose
capitation tax not to exceed two
dollars on each poll, the payment of
which shall be condition precedent
to the exercise of the right of suffrage;
excepting, however, from the opera
tion of such capitation tax all such
persons as from disability or otherwise
ought, in the Judgment of the General
Assembly, to be exempted.
The laws now in force in relation TO
the homestead exemptions and the
rights Of property of married women
SHALL remain inviUlate.
The public debt of this State except
for the ordinary and current business
OF the State shall never be increased
except by a two-thirds vote Of the whole
representation.
Ne person shall be eligible to any
office in this State unless he possesses
the qualifications prescribed for mem
bers of the House of Representatives
by this Constitution.
The following summary of mscel-
laneous propositions will prove in
teresting:
Mr.. Dudley, of Marlboro, puts the
divorce matter in nutshell. 1t is
about as short as could be imagined.
The resolution is simply: THAT
divorce from the bond of matrimony is
prohibited"
Mr.. Hutson, Of Hampton, has given
the married woman question mature
thought and makes the following pro-
position: The real and personal pro-
perty of woman held ut the time of
her marriage, Or that which she may
thereafter acquire, either by gift,
grant, inheritance, devise or other
wise, shall not be subject to levy and
| sale for her husbands debts, unless by
her own acts she makes herself liable
therefor, but shall be her separate
property, and she shall have all the
| rights incident to the same to which
an unmarried woman or man is
entitled. She shall have the power to
contract and be contracted with in the
same manner as if she were unmar-
ried."
Mr.. Sullivan, Of Anderson, has a
sledge hammer resolution in the fol-
lowing "No railroad or other cor
poration or the lessees, purchasers or
managers Of any railroad shall consoli-
date 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, owning or having under control
a parallel or competing line; and the
question whether railroads are par
allel or competing lines shall, when
demanded by the party complainant,
be decided by jury as in civil cases. u
, Mr.. Gray, of Greenville, had ex-
perience with this matter: "That
the Governor shall have power to
remit fines and forfeitures, to grant
reprieves, communications of sentence
and pardons, except in cases Of i'm
peachment; but no pardon shall be
granted nor sentence commuted eX.
cept upon the recommendation in
writing OF the Lieutenant Governor
Secretary of State, Attorney General
superintendent of the Penitentiary
or any three of them, after full hear
ing, upon due public notice and in oper
session, and such recommendation
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