Seotion 28. No person shall be eligible to the General Assembly who holds any other office of profit, etc. 29. Failure to elect. Refusal to qualify.-Writs of election. 30. Oath of office. 31. Cause of removal from office. 32. The homestead of the head of the family exempt from at tachment. 33. Taxes on propenty, real and per sonal. Seotion sions convene the General As sembly. 17. He shall commission officers. 18. Seal of State. 19. Grants and commissions. How issued. 20. Oath of office. 21. Residence of Governor. 22. Bills which have passed the General Assembly to be signed by the Governor.He may sign or veto. May be passed over his veto. 23. Comptroller-General Treasurer, Secretary of State.--Term of office, duties and compensation prescribed by law. ARTICLE III. ARTICLE IV. E.cecutice Department. 1. The supreme executive author ity is vested in the Governor. 2. The manner of electing the Governor.-Term of office two years.-May be re-elected. 3. To be eligible to the office of Governor. 4. The returns of election of Governor. The person having highest number of votes elected.-In case of tie.-Contested elections. 5. Election of Lieutenant-Governor. -President of the Senate. 6. He shall only vote in case of tie. 7. The Senate shall choose a Presi dent pro tem. 8. Vacation of seats. 9. When the duties of Governor shall devolve on Lieutenant Governor. 10. The Governor shall be com mander-in-Chief of the militia. 11. Pardoning power vested in the Governor. 12. He shall see that the laws are executed. 13. Compensation of Governor and Lieutenant-Governor.-It shall not be increased nor dimin ished. 14. Executive officers to report to the Governor. 15. The Governor's message. 16. He may on extraordinary occa Judicial Department. 1. The judicial power of the State is vested in the Supreme and certain other courts. 2. The Supreme Court.-Number of judges. --Quorum .-How elected.-Term of office six years. - To be classified. 3. The Chief Justice and associ ates.-Their terms. 4. The Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction. 5. Sessions of the same. 6. No judge shall, if interested, etc. 7. The judge of said court shall appoint a reporter and clerk. 8. When a judgment or decree is reversed. 9. Compensation of judges of Su preme and Circuit Courts. Not to have fees nor hold any other office. 10. To be eligible as judge of Su preme and Circuit Counts. 11. Vacancies.-How filled. 12. Decisions.-Concurrence of two judges necessary. 13. The State to be divided into Circuits. 14. Interchanging. 16. Court of Common Pleas.-Its terms and jurisdiction. Section 17. Preservation of records. 18. Jurisdiction of Court of General Session. 19. Repealed. 20. Probate Court.- Its jurisdiction. 21. Justices of the peace.- Term of office two years. 22. Jurisdiction of the same. 23. Powers of the same. 24. Right of appeal. 25. Judges of Probate.-County com missioners. — Justices of the peace and constables, their compensation. 26. How judges shall charge juries. 27. Clerks of courts. 28. Attorney-General.- His election. Duties.- Term of office and compensation. 29. Solicitors.—Their election.-Term of office and compensation, 30. Sherifts and coroners, term of office four years. 31. Writs and processes. 32. Decisions of the Supreme Court. 33. The fourteenth article of amend ment of the United States Constitution shall be ratified. 34. Slave contracts void. ! Section 2. Impeachments shall be tried by the Senate. 3. All executive officers liable. Judgment not to extend be yond removal from office. 4. Causes of impeachment. ARTICLE VIII. Kight of Suffrage. 1. Popular elections shall be by ballot. 2. Qualifications of electors. 3. Registration of electors. 4. Residence not lost by reason of absence in the service of the United States. 5. Soldiers and seamen not deemed residents by reason of being stationed in this State. 6. Electors exempted from arrest. 7. Electors eligible for any office. 8. Those deprived of the right of suffrage. 9. Presidential electors. 10. The person receiving the highest number of votes elected. 11. The term of residence necessary to hold office not applicable to, etc. 12. Former slaves not disfranchised. ARTICLE IX. Finance and Taxation. 1. Assessment and taxation. 2. Poll tax. 3. An annual tax sufficient to de fray the expenses of the State shall be provided for. 4. The object of a tax to be stated. 5. Public, charitable and certain other institutions to be ex empted from taxation. 6. Valuation and assessment or lands. 7. The State may contract public debts for extraordinary ex penditures. 8. Municipal taxation. 9. Incorporation of cities and towns. 10. Evidences of State indebtedness. 11. A statement of receipts and ex penditures to be published. ARTICLE V. Jurisprudence. 1. Differences may be decided by arbitrators. 2. The General Assembly shall pass all laws necessary for the change of venue. 3. Codification of the laws. ARTICLE VI. Eminent Domain. 1. The State shall have concurrent jurisdiction on all rivers bor dering on the State. 2. Land titles. 3. Ultimate right of property. ARTICLE VII. Impeachment. 1. The sole power of impeachment is vested in the House of Representatives. Section 2. Corporations shall be taxed. 3. No right of way shall be appro priated without full compen sation. 4. Dues from corporations. 5. The personal liberty of stock holders to be fixed. 6. Charters for banking purposes. ARTICLE XIII. Militia. 1. To consist of whom. 2. The Governor has the power to call them out. 3. There shall be an Adjutant and Inspector-General. ARTICLE XIV. Miscellaneous. 1. Qualifications for office. 2. Lotteries and the sale of tickets prohibited. 3. The State library. 4. Claims against the State. 5. Divorces. 6. Disqualification for office. 7. Printing for the General As sembly. 8. Woman's property. 9. Removal of causes. 10. Time of election of State officers. ARTICLE XV. Amendment and Revision of the Con stitution. 1. Amendments may be proposed in either house. 2. If two more amendments shall be submitted at the same or Section but by appropriation. on November first of each year. 14. State bonds. 15. State, county and school funds. 16. Secession debts shall never be paid. 17. Any bonded debt contracted by any subdivision of the State shall never exceed eight per centum, etc. ARTICLE X. Education. 1. Superintendent of Education. His election.-Powers, duties, etc., to be defined by General Assembly. 2. School commissioners.-Board of education. 3. Free schools to be kept at least six months in each year. { Compulsory attendance. 5. Property to be taxed for the support of schools. 6. A Normal school to be estab lished. 1. Institutions for the blind, deaf and dumb. 3. A reform school to be estab lished. 3. State University and Agricultu ral College. 10. Public schools open to all with out regard to race or color. 11. The school fund. ARTICLE XI. time. Charitable and Penal Institutions. blind, etc. 2. Directors of the penitentiary. 3. Directors of benevolent and other State institutions. 4 The Governor to fill vacancies. 5. Poor laws. 6. Lunatic asylum. AMENDMENTS. Article XVI. ARTICLE XII. Corporations. 1. They may be formed under general laws. Prohibiting creation of debt without consent of the people. Amendment to Article II, Section 11. Changing election from October to November. Amendment to Article III, Sec tion 23. Changing term of office of cer tain State officers. Amendment to Article II, Section . “Toxaway" substituted for “ White Water." Amendment to Article X, Section 5. Tax of two mills for public schools. Amendment to Article II, Section 32. As to homestead, amended. Amendment to Article II, Section 11. Biennial elections to be fixed by Legislature. tion 8. gery or any other infamous crime added to disqualifica. tions. PREAMBLE. We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, grateful to Almighty God for this opportunity deliberately and peaceably of entering into an explicit and solemn compact with each other, and forming a new Constitution of civil government for ourselves and posterity, recognizing the necessity of the protection of the people in all that pertains to their freedom, safety and tranquillity, and imploring the direction of the Great Legislator of the Universe, do agree upon, ordain and establish the following: ARTICLE I. Declaration of Rights. Section 1. All men are born free and equal — endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among which are the rights of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties, of acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness. Sec. 2. Slavery shall never exist in this State; neither shall involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. Sec. 3. All political power is vested in and derived from the people only; therefore they have the right, at all times, to modify their form of government in such manner as they may deem expedient, when the public good demands. Sec. 4. Every citizen of this State owes paramount allegiance to the Constitution and government of the United States, and no law or ordinance of this State in contravention or subversion thereof can have any binding force. Sec. 5. This State shall ever remain a member of the Ameri. can Union, and all attempts, from whatsoever source, or upon whatever pretext, to dissolve the said union shall be resisted with the whole power of the State. Sec. 6. The right of the people peaceably to assemble to con 6 sult for the common good, and to petition the government, or any department thereof, shall never be abridged. Sec. 7. All persons may freely speak, write and publish their sentiments on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no laws shall be enacted to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. Sec. 8. In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers or men in public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence; and in all indictments for libel, the jury shall be the judges of the law and the facts. No person shall be deprived of the right to worship God accordIng to the dictates of his own conscience: Provided, That the liberty of conscience hereby declared shall not justify practices inconsistent with the peace and moral safety of society. Sec. 10. No form of religion shall be established by law; but it shall be the duty of the General Assembly to pass suitable laws to protect every religious denomination in the peace able enjoyment of its own mode of worship. Sec. 11. The right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate. Sec. 12. No person shall be disqualified as a witness, or be prevented from acquiring, holding and transmitting property, or be hindered in acquiring education, or be liable to any other punishment for any offense, or be subjected in law to any other restraints or disqualifications, in regard to any personal rights, than such as are laid upon others under like circumstances. Sec. 13. No person shall be held to answer for any crime or offense until the same is fully, fairly, plainly, substantially and formally described to him; or be compelled to accuse or furnish evidence against himself; and every person shall have a right to produce all proofs that may be favorable to him, to meet the witnesses against him face to face, to have a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury, and to be fully heard in his defense by himself or by his counsel, or by both, as he may elect. Sec. 14. No person shall be arrested, imprisoned, despoiled or dispossessed of his property, immunities or privileges, put out of the protection of the law, exiled or deprived of |