Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-01-05

very many advantages i'll the appointments of
committees which we could not otherwise
have enjoyed.
LEGISLATURE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
This body adjourned on the 10th December,
having completed great deal of business, and
leaving, for want of time, n still larger ouanti
ty OF business unfinished Thirty.fve Acts
were passed, rs will be seen in another column
the majority of which pertain to local matters
and therefore contain nothing of general inter
est For the special benefit Of our readers we
briefly sketch the substance of such Acts and
Resolutions of the Legislature rs will be direct
ly interesting.
The Commissioners of Roads of the 9Th and
ond Regiments, s. C.. NJ, have heretofore had
but one Treasurer, which they found inconvc-
nieut, and by the petition of Commissioners
of Roads of 9th Regiment they we're author
lied to elect Treasurer to each Board.
The following is n verbatim extract from the
Road Bill as passed by both houses Of the Leg
islaturc, viz:
SIC. 25. "That the Commissioners Of Roads
and Ferries Of Piokens District 9TH Regiment
s. G. NJ, be and is hereby authori sed to appoint
n Treasurer to each of their Boards of Com
missioners of Roads, and that instead of five
per cent, two and half per cent be allowed
each Treasurer for receiving and distributing
the money collected by such Boards.
THAT new road be opened and declared n
public road, commencing at some convenient
point ON the road leading from Pcndleton to
Pickensville, thence by Symmcs' Mills to
Sloan's Tan Yard ON the road from Pendeton
to Pickcns c. H.
That new road be laid out from Anderson
c. H., via PendletoA Village, to Pickens G. H.,
and that j. W. Harrison, Elias Earle, j. D.
Scott, Geo. Seaborn, and Elam Sharpe be ap.
pointed commissioners to superintend and lay
out the same from Anderson to Pcndleton,
that Miles NJ. Norton VIM. Sloan, L. NJ. Keith.
Jno. b. stton and #. N. Gnrvm be appointed
commissioners to surcrintcnd and lay cut The
same from Pcndleton to Pickcns @. H.
"'That the Road from Anderson Court House
to Townvillc, via Shallow Ford be changed
| from q point ut OF near a. ID. Hcmbrea's house,
to its junc,.on with the Sloan's Ferry Road
west of Seneca river and that Samuel Brown,
David Simmons James Gilmer, L, A. Osborn
and A. ID. Hembrce, beappointed Commission.
crs to superintcnd and lay out the samc.-That
! the Road from Anderson Court House to Cray
| tonyillc, bc changed from the Court House to
Bobcrt Smiths louss east of Broadway creek,
and that Geo. II. Brown James r. Wyatt, j. p
Reed, Stephen McCully, and VIM, Hevtt, be.
appointed Commissioners to supcrintend and
lay out the same; aiso that The Road from An
derson Court House 10 Andersonvllc be
changed Mt various places where it may be
deemed necessary, and that James Glmer,
Clayton Webb, John b. Wynne and William
Mills, DO appointed Commissioners to superin-
tend and lay out the same; md that the said
roads be and they are hereby declared to be
public roads and the standing commissioners
OF the respective Regiments in which said
Roads are located, M hereby required, where
said Roads shall have been laid out MS herein
provided for, to take charge Of, open, and keep
open the same in repair, according to law"
clause was inserted in the appropriation
Bill appropriatin, two thousand dollars to the
building of n basement story and offices to the
| Court House in Pickens District Also the
sum of four thousand five hundred dollars for
building new Jail in Anderson District-the
said sums of money to be drawn from the
Treasurer of the upper Division, and applied
under the direction of the Commissioners of
Public Buildings of the respective Districts for
the purposes above mentioned
We also take pleasure in announcing that
there will be S474,24 in addition to the usn
al appropriation fslo5o) placed at the disposal
ofthe Commissioners of Free Schools. On ex.
amnng the hooks Of the Treasurer, it appear
cd that the above amount had been sunk to tho
State and passed to the credit of the District
in ls4s, whereupon it was resolved that the
Commissioners of Free Schools for pickens Dis.
trict be authorised to draw from the Treasury
in the usual way, the sum of s474 "a in addi.
ton to the nnnusl appropriation.
The following gentlemen were appointed
magistrates for Pickens District:
W. X. Eas!cy vice II. II. CASTOR, res'nd
Jno Sharpe, - A. Alexander, decd.
| o. II. r. Fant - J.B. L. Caradne.
No change made in Commissioners of Roads
| Public Buildings, or Free schools
The following Is the substance ofthe provis
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