Subject: 29 November 1758 Electing Members
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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 01:35:26 -0400
From: "Steven J. Coker" 

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Wednesday the 29th Day of November 1758.

"... Mr. Lynch reported from the Committee appointed to inspect the Act intitled
"An Act to ascertain the manner and form of Electing Members to represent the
Inhabitants of this Province in the Commons House of Assembly &ca." That the
Committee had inspected the said Act and Considered what Alterations and
Amendments are necessary to be made thereto, and had directed him to report the
same, as it appeared to them, to the House, and he read the Report in his Place,
and afterward delivered it in at the Clerk's Table, where the same was read and
is as follows, Vizt.

That it is their Opinion that the Qualification of Electors ought to be Every
White Man and no other Person, professing the Christian Religion who has
attained to the Age of twenty One Years and hath been a Resident and Inhabitant
in this Province for the Space of One Year before the Date of the Writs issued
for that Election at which he offers to give his Vote, and hath a Freehold
Estate in a settled Plantation or not less than three hundred Acres of Land
unsettled for which he paid in the last preceding Tax or hath a Freehold in
Houses, Lands or Town Lots or parts thereof of the Value of Sixty Pounds
Proclamation Money, in Charles Town or any other Town in this Province, for
which he paid in the last preceding Tax, or any free white Person of the Age of
twenty One Years, who hath paid five Pounds Currency in the last preceding Tax
before such Election.

That the Qualification of the Elected should be a free born Subject of the
Kingdom of Great Britain or of the Dominions thereunto belonging or a foreign
Person naturalized by Act of Parliament of Great Britain or Ireland that hath
attained the Age of twenty One Years, professes the Christian Religion and hath
been resident in this Province for one Year at any time before the Date of the
said Writs and having in this Province a settled Plantation or free hold Estate
of at least five hundred Acres of Land and twenty Slaves over and above what he
owes, or has in his own proper Person or in his own Right to the Value of One
thousand Pounds Proclamation Money in Houses, Buildings, Town Lots or other
Lands in any part of this Province over and above what he owes.

That the last mentioned Clause should be read to any Person offering himself to
be qualified, instead of the Clauses appointed for that purpose in the Election
Law now of Force.

And that the third and Eighth Clauses of the said Act should be repealed.

Resolved that this House will on Wednesday Morning next take the said Report
into Consideration...."

Source:
The Colonial Records of South Carolina
The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly
Published by the SC Department of Archives and History
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 51-62239
ISBN: 1-880067-28-5

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