S.C. Const. art. XVII, § 1
No person shall be elected or appointed to any office in this State unless he possess the qualifications of an elector: Provided, The provisions of this Section shall not apply to the offices of State Librarian and Departmental Clerks, to either of which offices any woman, a resident of the State two years, who has attained the age of twenty-one years, shall be eligible.
The present provisions of this section are somewhat similar to the first sentence of Section 1 of Article VI. For similar provisions in Constitution of 1868, see Const 1868, Art XIV, Section 1.