fioned by the Governor and Commander in Chief; and that all other officers in the army and navy of this State fhall be commiffioned by the Governor and Commander in Chief..

XXXI. That in cafe of vacancy in any of the offices above directed to be filled by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives, the Governor and Commander in Chief, with the advice and confent of the Privy-council, may appoint others in their ftead, until there fhall be an election by the Senate and Houfe of Representatives to fill thofe vacancies refpectively.

XXXII. That the Governor and Commander in Chief, with the advice and confent of the Privy-Council, may appoint, during pleasure, until otherwife directed by law, all other neceffary officers, except fuch as are now by law directed to be otherwife chofen.

XXXIII. That the Governor and Commander in Chief fhall have no power to commence war, or conclude peace, or enter into any final treaty, without the consent of the Senate and House of Representatives.

XXXIV. That the refolutions of the late Congreffes of this State, and all laws now of force

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here (and not hereby altered), shall so continue, until altered or repealed by the legislature of this State, unless where they are temporary, in which cafe they fhall expire at the times respectively limited for their duration.

XXXV. That the Governor and Commander in Chief for the time being, by and with the advice and confent of the Privy-council, may lay embargoes, or prohibit the exportation of any commodity, for any time, not exceeding thirty days, in the recefs of the Gene-ral Affembly.

XXXVI. That all perfons who shall be chosen and appointed to any office, or to any place of truft, civil or military, before entering upon the execution of office shall take the following oath :

"I, A. B. do acknowledge the State of South-Carolina to be a free, independent, and fovereign State, and that the people thereof owe no allegiance or obedience to George the Third, King of Great Britain. And I do renounce, refuse, and abjure, any allegiance or obedience to him. And I do fwear or affirm (as the cafe may be) that I will, to the utmost of my power, fupport, maintain, and defend

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the faid State, against the faid King George the Third, and his heirs and fucceffors, and his or their abettors, affiftants, and adherents, and will ferve the faid State in the office of with fidelity and honour, and according to the best of my skill and understanding. So help me God."

XXXVII. That adequate yearly salaries be allowed to the public officers of this State, and be fixed by law.

XXXVIII. That all perfons and religious focieties who acknowledge that there is one God, and a future ftate of rewards and punishments, and that God is publicly to be worshipped, shall be freely tolerated. The Christian Proteftant religion fhall be deemed, and is hereby constituted and declared to be the established religion of this State. That all denominations of Chriftian Proteftants in this State, demeaning themselves peaceably and faithfully, fhall enjoy equal religious and civil privileges. To accomplish this defirable purpose, without injury to the religious property of those Societies of Christians which are by law already incorporated for the purpose of religious worship; and to put it fully into the

power of every other Society of Chriftian Protestants, either already formed, or hereafter to be formed, to obtain the like incorporation; it is hereby conftituted, appointed, and declared, That the respective Societies of the Church of England that are already formed in this State for the purposes of religious woríhip, shall still continue incorporate, and hold the religious property, now in their poffeffion: and that whenever fifteen or more male perfons, not under twenty-one years of age, profeffing the Christian Proteftant religion, agree to unite themselves in a Society for the purposes of religious worship, they fhall (on complying with the terms herein after mentioned) be, and be constituted, a Church, and be esteemed and regarded in law as of the established religion of the State; and on a petition to the legislature, fhall be intitled to be incorporated, and to enjoy equal privileges. That every Society of Chriftians fo formed fhall give themselves a name, or denomination, by which they fhall be called and known in law; and all that affociate with them for the purposes of worship, shall be efteemed as belonging to the Society fo called. but that, previous to the establishment and incorporation

corporation of the refpective Societies of every denomination as aforefaid, and in order to intitle them thereto, each Society fo petitioning fhall have agreed to, and fubfcribed, in a book, the following five articles, without which no agreement or union of men, upon pretence of religion, fhall intitle them to be incorporated, and efteemed as a Church of the eftablished religion of this State :

1. That there is one eternal God, and a future state of rewards and punishments.

2. That God is publicly to be worshipped. 3. That the Chriftian religion is the true religion.

4. That the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Teftament are of divine inspiration, and are the rule of faith and practice.

5. That it is lawful, and the duty of every man, being thereunto called by those that go

vern, to bear witness to truth.

That every inhabitant of this State, when called to make an appeal to God as a witness to truth, fhall be permitted to do it in that way which is moft agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience. And that the people of this State may for ever enjoy the right of electing. their

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