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Seif. IV. All causes (Kail be tried in the county
where the defendant resides; except in cases of real
estate, which (hall be tried in the county where
such estate lies; and in criminal cases, which (hall
be tried in the county where the crime (hall be
committed.
Seif, V. The Judges of the Superior Court, and
Attorney-General, (hall have a competent (alary
established by law,, which (hall not be increaled nor
dimini(hed during their continuance in office ; and 4
ihall hold their cbmmiflions during the term ot
three years.
A R T I C L E IV.
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Sect. I. The eledors of the members of both
branches of the General Aflembly (hail be citizens
and inhabitants of this (late $ arid (hali have attain
ed to the age of twenty-one years ; and have paid
tax for the year preceeding the eledion, and (hall
have resided fix months within the county.,
Sect * 11. All eledions (hall be by ballot, and the
Houle of Representatives, in all appointments ot
(fate officers, (hall vote for three perions, and a lift
of the three persons, having the higheftnumber of
votes, (hall be signed by the Speaker, and tent to the
Senate; which (hall, from luch lift, determine, by a
majority of their votes, the officer eleded; except
militia officers, and the secretaries of the Governor,
who (hall be appointed by the Governor atone,
under such regulations and reftridions as the Ge
neral Aflembly may prescribe. The General As
sembly may veil the appointment of inferior officers
in the Governor, the Courts of Justice, or in such
other manner, as they may by law eftablilh.
Sect 111. Freedom of the prcls, and trial by
• jury, (hall remain inviolate. ,
Sett. IV. All persons (hall be entitled to the be
nefit of the writ of Habeas Corpus.
Sect. V. All perions (hall have the free exercise
of religion ; without being obliged to contribute to
the (upport of any religious profeflion but their
own. .
Sect. VI. Estates (hall riot be entailed; and when
a perlon dies intestate, leaving a wife and children,
the wife (hall have a childVlhare, of her dower,
at her option : if there be no wife, the estate (hall
be equally divided among the children, and their le
gal representatives of the firft degree. ’ s The distri
bution of all other intestate estates may be regulat
ed by law. , ; .. .. .< , ..
Seif. VH. At the general eledion for members
of Aflembiy, in the year one thousand, seven hun
dred and ninety-four, the eledors in each county
(hall eled three persons to reprefen t them in a con
vention, for the purpose of taking into considera
tion the alterations necessary to be made in this Con
stitution ; who (ball meet at such time arid place
as the General Aflembly may appoint; "arid if two
thirds of the whole nmnoer (hall meet and concur,
they (hall proceed to agree on such alterations and
amendments, as they may think proper: Provided,
That after two-thirds (hall have concurred to pro
ceed to alterations and amendments, a majority (hall
determine on the particulars bf such alterations and
amendments.
Seif. VIII. This Constitution (hall take effed,
and be in full force, on the firft Monday in Odober,
next after the adoption of the fame; arid the Ex
ecutive (hall be authorifed to alter the time for the
fitting of the Superior Courts, so that the fame
may not interfere with the annual eledions in the
rtfpefllve counties, or the meeting of the firftGt
neial Aflembly.
Done at Augusta in Convention, the sixth dav
ot May, in the year of our Lord one thou
sand, leven hundred and eighty nine, and in
the year of sovereignty and independence of*
the United States the thirteenth.
WILLIAM GIBBONS, President,
• ' an * De!e Z“‘eJrom Chatham.
Asa Emanuel, ... >
Justus H. Scheuber, 3 Latham*
Benjamin I anier, V
John Green, \ Effingham.
Nathan Brownfon, J
David Emanuel, r
Hugh Lawson, (. Burke.
Wilfiam Li tie, • J
Abraham Marthal, t
William F. Booker, 1 i Richmond.
Leonard Marbury, j
John Talbot, A ljrl ,
Jeremiah Walker,' 5 Wilkes.
Lauchlan M‘lnto(h, Liberty .
Alexander Biffett, Glynn . *
Jared Irwin, T
John Watts, C TTaJhinzton.
Joshua Williams, ) S
Middleton Woods, Franklin
Joseph Carmichael, 7
Henry Karr, Greene .
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Aiujl D. LONGSTREET, Stc’ryC
These are, therefore, to . announce and notify
the fame to the people at large of this State, and
to all others whom it may concern; to commence
at the time, and in the manner, therein exprefTed.
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GIVEN tinder ms Hand , and the Great Seal of
the said state. in the Council Chamber, at Au
gufia, this eleventh day of May , ‘in the year of
our Lord , one thou!and , leven hundred and
eighty-nine ; and of our sovereignty and inde
pendence the thirteenth.
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George Walton/
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. By Pis Hsner's Command,
JOHN MILTON, Sec'ry.
GOD SAVE THE STATE.
ON the 4th of April lafl Robert Stark,, of Fair Hill, in South-
Carolina, agreed to lst me have a negroe wench, named Dol
ly, in part payment of a debt due to me/rom his father, Col. Stark { .
but a difference in opinion arising between us, rejecting the value
that Iliould be put upon the. wench, Robert Stark proposed to refer
me to his mother, at Independent Level, to fettle the price after I.had
seen the wench, and for that purp.ofe, gave me a letter to heron that
fubjeft : .» At riv arrival, I delivered the letter, and related to Mrs.
Stark the convention that bad pal Ted between her son and myfelf.
She observed, that he had fignified in his letter that I ought to allow
tool, for the wench ; but as he had left it to her to fix the price, she
said, in consideration of the great indulgence I had given Col. Stark,
llie Would charge me no more than what Ihe thought the wench was
really worth, and that was 601. I agreed to the price ; and accord
ingly gave a receipt for that sum to Mrs. Stark, in difeharge of so
much money in part of the debt due to me, and the wench was deli
-1 j vered in preface of Major Mee and another person, the former of
; whom lent me a horse, and procured me a lad to bfing the wench to
Augusta., And whereas, on the evening of the 18th o£ April, an at
tempt was made to deal the wench from my house, and having fuffici
- ent reasons to apprehind the fame steps will be taken again, I thus
publicly forewarn all persons, on their peril, from making the like
attempts in future.
GEORGE HUNT.
Augujla, May 14, 1785.
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