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Clerk of the Privy-council fhall keep a regular journal of all their proceedings, in which shall be entered the yeas and nays on every question, and the opinion, with the reasons at large, of any Member who defires it; which journal shall be laid before the legislature, when required by either House.

X. That in case of the absence from the feat of government, or fickness of the Governor and the Lieutenant-governor, any one of the Privycouncil may be empowered by the Governor, under his hand and feal, to act in his room; but fuch appointment shall not vacate his feat in the Senate, House of Reprefentatives, or Privy

council.

XI. That the executive authority be vested in the Governor and Commander in Chief, in manner herein mentioned.

XII. That each parish and district throughout this State shall on the last Monday in November next, and the day following, and on the fame days of every fecond year thereafter, elect, by ballot, one Member of the Senate; except the district of St. Philip and St. Michael's parishes, Charlestown, which fhall elect two Members; and except also the district between Broad and Saludy Rivers, in three divifions, viz. the

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Lower District, Little River diftrict, and Upper or Spartan diftrict, each of which faid divifions shall elect one Member; and except

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except the rishes of St. Matthew and Orange, which shall elect one Member; and also except the parishes of Prince George and All Saints, which shall elect one Member. And the election of Senators for such parishes refpectively, shall, until otherwise altered by the legislature, be at the parish of Prince George, for the said parish and the parish of All Saints, at the parish of St. Matthew, for that parish and the parish of Orange; to meet on the first Monday in January then next, at the feat of government, unless the casualties of war or contagious diforders fhould render it unfafe to meet there; in which cafe the Governor and Commander in Chief for the time being may, by proclamation, with the advice and confent of the Privy-council, appoint a more fecure and convenient place of meeting; and to continue for two years, from the said last Monday in November; and that no person shall be eligible to a seat in the faid Senate, unless he be of the Protestant religion, and hath attained the age of thirty years, and hath been a refident in this State at least five years. Not less than thirteen Members fhall be a

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Quorum to do business, but the Prefident or any three Members may adjourn from day to day. No person who refides in the parish or district for which he is elected fhall take his feat in the Senate, unless he poffeffes a fettled estate and freehold, in his own right, in the faid parish or district, of the value of two thousand pounds currency at least, clear of debt; and no nonrefident fhall be eligible to a feat in the said Senate, unless he is owner of a fettled eftate and freehold, in his own right, in the parish or diftrict where he is elected, of the value of seven thousand pounds currency at least, also clear of

debt.

XIII. That on the last Monday in November next, and the day following, and on the fame days of every fecond year thereafter, Members of the House of Reprefentatives shall he chofen, to meet on the firft Monday in January then next, at the feat of government, unlefs the cafualties of war or contagious diforders fhould render it unfafe to meet there; in which cafe the Governor and Commander in Chief for the time being may, by proclamation, with the advice and consent of the Privy-council, appoint a more secure and convenient place of meeting; and to continue for two years from

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the faid laft Monday in November. Each parish and district within this State fhall fend Members to the General Affembly in the following proportions, that is to fay,

The parish of St. Philip and St. Michael, Charlestown, thirty Members.

The parish of Chrift-Church, fix Members. The parish of St. John, in Berkley county,

fix Members.

The parish of St. Andrew, fix Members.

The parish of St. George, Dorchester, six Members.

The parish of St. James, Goofe-Creek, fix Members.

The parish of St. Thomas and St. Dennis, fix Members.

The parish of St. Paul, fix Members.

The parish of St. Bartholomew, fix Members. The parish of St. Helena, fix Members. The parish of St. James, Santee, fix Members.

The parish of Prince George, Winyah, four Members.

The parish of All Saints, two Members. The parish of Prince Frederick, fix Members.

The parish of St. John, in Colleton county, fix Members.

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The parish of St. Peter, fix Members. The parish of Prince William, fix Members. The parish of St. Stephen, fix Members. The district to the eastward of Wateree river, ten Members.

The district of Ninety-Six, ten Members. The district of Saxe-Gotha, fix Members. The diftrict between Broad and Saludy Rivers, in three divifions, viz.

The Lower district, four Members.

The Little River diftrict, four Members. The Upper or Spartan diftrict, four Members.

The district between Broad and Catawba Rivers, ten Members.

The district called the New Acquifition, ten Members.

The parish of St. Matthew, three Members. The parish of Orange, three Members. The parish of St. David, fix Members. The district between Savannah River and the north fork of Edifto, fix Members.

And the election of the faid Members shall be conducted, as near as may be, agreeable to the directions of the prefent or any future Election Act or Acts. And where there are no churches

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