The parish of St. George fhall be another county, and known by the name of Burke. The parish of St. Matthew, and the upper part of St. Philip, above Canouchie, shall be another county, and known by the name of Effingham. The parish of Christ-Church, and the lower part of St. Philip, below Canouchie, shall be another county, and known by the naine of Chatham. The parishes of St. John, St. Andrew, and St. James, shall be another county, and known by the name of Liberty. The parishes of St. David and St. Patrick fhall be another county, and known by the name of Glyn. The parishes of St. Thomas and St. Mary fhall be another county, and known by the name of Camden. The port and town of Savannah fhall be allowed four Members to reprefent their trade. The port and town of Sunbury fhall be allowed two Members to represent their trade. V. The two counties of Glyn and Camden fhall have one Representative each; and also they, and all other counties that may hereafter be be laid out by the House of Affembly, shall be under the following regulations, viz. At their first institution, each county fhall have one Member, provided the inhabitants of said county fhall have ten electors; and if thirty, they shall have two; if forty, three; if fixty, four; if eighty, fix; if an hundred and upwards, ten; at which time two Executive Councillors fhall be chofen from them, as is directed for the other counties. VI. The Representatives shall be chosen out of the refidents in each county who shall have refided at least twelve months in this State, and three months in the county where they shall be elected; except the freeholders of the counties of Glyn and Camden, who are in a state of alarm, and who shall have the liberty of chufing one Member each, as specified in the articles of this Constitution, in any other county, until they have refidents fufficient to qualify them for more and they shall be of the Protestant religion, and of the age of twenty-one years, and shall be poffeffed in their own right of two hundred and fifty acres of land, or fome property to the amount of two hundred and fifty pounds. VII. The VII. The Houfe of Affembly fhall have power to make fuch laws and regulations as may be conducive to the good order and wellbeing of the State; provided fuch laws and regulations be not repugnant to the true intent and meaning of any rule or regulation contained in this Conftitution. The House of Affembly shall also have power to repeal all laws and ordinances they find injurious to the people and the House shall chufe its own Speaker, appoint its own officers, fettle its own rules of proceeding, and direct writs of election for fupplying intermediate vacancies; and fhall have power of adjournment to any time or times within the year. VIII. All laws and ordinances fhall be three times read, and each reading shall be on different and separate days, except in cafes of great neceffity and danger; and all laws and ordinances fhall be fent to the Executive Council, after the fecond reading, for their perufal and advice. IX. Every male white inhabitant, of the age of twenty-one years, and poffeffed, in his own right, of ten pounds value, and liable to pay tax in this State, or being of any mechanic trade, and who fhall have been a refident fix months in this State, State, shall have a right to vote at all elections for Representatives, or any other officers herein agreed to be chosen by the people at large; and every perfon having a right to vote at any election, shall vote by ballot personally. X. No officer whatever shall serve any process, or give any other hindrance to any perfon entitled to vote, either in going to the place of election, or during the time of the faid election, or on their returning home from fuch election; nor shall any military officer or foldier appear at any election in a military character, to the intent that all elections free and open. may be XI. No perfon fhall be entitled to more than one vote, which fhall be given in the county where fuch perfon refides, except as before excepted; nor fhall any person who holds any title of nobility, be entitled to a vote, or be capable of ferving as a Representative, or hold any poft of honour, profit, or trust, in this State, whilft fuch perfon claims his title of nobility; but if the person shall give up fuch diftinction, in the manner as may be directed by any future legiflature, then, and in fuch cafe, he fhall be entitled to a vote, and reprefent, as before before directed, and enjoy all the other benefits of a free citizen. XII. Every person absenting himself from an election, and who fhall neglect to give in his or their ballot at fuch election, fhall be fubject to a penalty not exceeding five pounds; the mode of recovery, and also the appropriation thereof, to be pointed out and directed by Act of the legislature provided nevertheless, that a reafonable excufe fhall be admitted. XIII. The manner of electing Reprefentatives fhall be by ballot, and shall be taken by two or more Juftices of the Peace, in each county, who shall provide a convenient box for receiving the faid ballots; and on closing the poll, the ballots fhall be compared in public with the lifts of voters that have been taken, and the majority immediately declared; a certificate of the fame being given to the perfons elected, and also a certificate returned to the House of Representatives. XIV. Every perfon entitled to vote fhall take the following oath or affirmation, if required, viz. "I, A. B. do voluntarily and folemnly fwear, or affirm (as the cafe may be), that I do owe true |