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An Act to provide for the appointment of deputies to a Southern Congress; and to call a convention of the people of this State. 1850 55 (1850)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0377 and id is 1 raw text is: OF SOUTH CAROLINA. subscribers shall thereby become members of the said Company, subject A. . 1850. in like manner, in proportion to their interest, to all the burthens, liabilities, responsibilities and conditions imposed upon the members of the said Company by the original Charter. In the Senate House, lhe twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty, and in the seventy-fith year of the Soveroignty and Independence of the United States of America. ROBT. F. W. ALLSTON, President of the Senate. JAMES SIMONS, Speaker House of Representatives. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF DEPUTIES TO A SouTn- No. 4019. ERN CONGRESS; AND TO CALL A CONVENTION OF THE PEOPLE OF TillS STATE. WHEREAS, the Convention of the slave-holding States lately assembled Pronmble. at Nashville have recommended to the said States to meet in Congress or Convention to be held at such time and place as the States desiring to be represented may designate, to be composed of double the number of their Senators and Representatives in the Congress of the United States, entrusted with full power and authority to deliberate, with the view and intention of' arresting further aggressions, and if possible of restoring the Constitutional rights of the South, and if not, to recommend due provi- sion for their future safety and independence. I. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives now met Southern Con and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, Thatgros. eighteen deputies shall be appointed in the manner hereinafter provided, who are hereby authorized, as Deputies from the State, to meet such Deputies as may be appointed and authorized by any other slave-holding State in Congress or Convention, as above recommended, and to join with them in discussing and devising such measures as, in their opinion, may be adequate to obtain the objects proposed by the said Convention at Nashville, and in reporting such measures to the said several slave-hold- ing States, as when agreed to and fully confirmed by them, or any of them, will effectually provide for the same. II. Four of the said Deputies shall be elected by joint ballot of the Number General Assembly at its present session, and the qualified voters in each Deputies. Congressional District in this State shall elect two, at such time as is hereinafter prescribed. III. The Governor of this State shall issue writs of election to the Time of I Managers of Election, requiring them to hold elections in their respective lections. Congressional Districts, on the second Monday in October next, and the 55

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