Duffus, James A. (fl. 1860) Official copy of S.C. ordinance to allow Gov. to treat with foreigners
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02270 Author/Creator: Duffus, James A. (fl. 1860) Place Written: Charleston Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 1860/12/27 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; 27 x 16 cm Order a Copy
Signed by Duffus as Deputy Secretary of South Carolina.
Dec. 27, 1860
The State of South Carolina
At a Convention of the People of the State of South Carolina begun and holden [sic] at Columbia on the Seventeenth day of December in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and Sixty and thence continued by adjournment to Charleston and there by divers [sic] adjournments to the Twenty seventh day of December in the same year.
An Ordinance to amend the Constitution of the State of South Carolina in respect to the Executive Department.
We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention Assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained That the governor shall have power to receive ambassadors, ministers, consuls and agents from foreign powers, to appoint such agents to be paid out of the contingent fund, as in his discretion he may choose to employ, to conduct negotiations with foreign powers, to make treaties by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, provided two thirds of the Senators present agree to nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate to appoint such ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, as the General Assembly shall have previously directed to be appointed, and also all other officers, whose appointment otherwise shall not have been provided for by law, to fill all vacancies that may happened, during the recess of the Senate, [inserted: in the offices to which he has the power to nominate as above mentioned by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of the next session of the Senate] and to convene the Senate whenever in his opinion it may be necessary; Provided nevertheless, that, during the existence of a convention, all treaties and direction for appointments of ambassadors, ministers, or consuls, shall be subject to the advice and consent of the convention, or to its separate actions. And it is further ordained, that the Governor shall immediately appoint four persons, with the advice and consent of this convention, who together with the Lieutenant Governor, shall form a council, to be called the Executive Council, whose duty it shall be, when required by the Governor, to advise with him upon all matters which may be submitted to their consideration, and that a record of such consultation shall be kept, provided nevertheless, that the Governor shall, in all cases, decide upon his own action.
[2] Done at Charleston the Twenty Seventh day of December in the year of our Lord One Thousand and eight hundred and sixty.
DF Jamison
President
Attest
BF Arthur Clerk
Secretary State Office
Charleston S.C. 3 January 1861 } I do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy letter from the original in this office
James A. Duffus
Deputy Secty State
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