The Senate and House of Representatives shall also, at the same time, each for itself elect a reading clerk and a sergeant at arms. Should a vacancy occur in the sergeant at arms while the General Assembly is not in session, the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House is authorized to appoint for their respective Houses a sergeant at arms until the convening of the next General Assembly.
S.C. Code Ann. § 2-3-90
Election of reading clerks, sergeants at arms, and assistant sergeants at arms
1962 Code SECTION 30-56; 1952 Code SECTION 30-56; 1942 Code SECTION 2057; 1932 Code SECTION 2057; Civ
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