The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-10-19
NOTICE OF ELECTION
FUN
STATE AND COUNTY OFFCIERS
AND FOR AMENDMENTS TO
THE CONSTITUTION.

State of South Carolina,
County OF Clarendon.
Notice is hereby given that an elee'
tion will be held at the several pre-.
cincts established by law in Clarendon
County, on Tuesday, November S, 1904.
for the following officers, to wit:
Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Sec.
retary of State, Attorney-General, State
Treasurer, ComptrollerGeneral, Super.
intendent Of Education, Adjutant and
Inspector-General, One Railroad Com.
missioner, County Supervisor, County
Superintendent of Education, Sheriff,
Clerk of Court, Coroner, Solicitor, and
three Representatives.
Pursuant to the Constitution Of South
Carolina an election will be held at the
same time and place for amendments
to the Constitution of South Carolina,
pursuant to the terms of Joint Resolu'
lions Nos. 1888, 3S4 and 3S5( Acts of South
Carolina, PIP. 674, 675, and 676), as fol
lows:
A JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing tc
Amend Section 9, of Article III, of the
State Constitution, so as to Provide
for Biennial Sessions OF the General
Assembly.
Section l. Be Resolved by the Gen
eral Assembly of the State Of South
Carolina. That the following amend.
nent to the Constitution of the State o1
South Carolina be submitted to the
qualified electors of the State at the
next general election for Represents
tives. and if a maiority of the electors
qualified to vote for members OF the
General Assembly. voting thereon. shall
vote in favor of such amendment, and
majority Of each branch Of the Gen
eral Assembly, shall after sach elec'
tion, and before another. ratify the
same amendment by yeas and nays,
Section 9, of Article III, of the c nsti-
tuition, relating to the Legislative De-
partment, be amended by adding after
the word ''place" in line ten of said
Section, the words until the end of the
session occurring in 1906, after which
the said sessions shall be held at the
same time and place biennially::" sc
that said section as amended shall read
as follows:
The annual session Of the General
Assembly heretofore elected, fixed by
the Constitution of the year eighteen
hundred and siXty-eight, to convene on
the fourth Tuesday of November, in the
wear of eighteen hundred and ninety
five. is hereby postponed. and the same
shall be convened and held 10 the city
of Columbia on the second Tuesday in
January in the year eighteen hundred
and ninety-siN.
The first session OF the General AS
sembly elected under this Constitution
shall convene in Columbia on the sec
ond Tuesday in January. in the year
eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.
and thereafter annually at the same
time and place until the end of the ses-
sion occurring in 1906, after which the
said sessions shall be held ut the same
time ard place biennially.
Should the casualties of war or con-
tagious diseases render it unsafe to
meet at the seat of government, then
the Governor may, by proclamation,
appoint more secure and convenient
place of meeting Members of the
General Assembly shall not receive any
compensation for more than forty days
of any one session: Provided, That this
Limitation shall not affect the first four
sessions of the General Assembly under
this Constitution.
Sec. ,. That the question of adopting
the amendment prefaced in the forego-
ING Section shall be submitted to the
electors as follows: Those in favor OF
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