Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-12-21
EVENING SESSION.

ing October, 1862, being under consideration,
an interesting debate arose on proposition OF
Mr. Porter to lay taxes on stock in trade, instead
of laying them on sales, as recommended by the
bill. In this debate Messrs. Adams, Buchanan,
Mazyck, anc Porter, participated.
The amendment proposed by Mr.. Porter did
not prevail.
Mr.. Buchanan said it might be proper to make
some statements in respect to the tax bill, and
the causes why it was necessary TO- increase the
taxes this year The expenditures and anpro-
prations of the year were greater than of any
preceding year. The ordinary expenditures
amounted to about S254,000. The expenses Of
the present year would exceed that amount by
$4,000. Hence the necessity for an increase
Of taxes. The tax on lands for 1851 was 35 per
cent For the year 1852, it would be 40 per
cent. The tax on slaves for 1851 was Sc cents
per head This year it would be 60 cents per
head. Tax on merchandise in 1851 GO cents on
Goods, wares, and merchandise, in possession
January l, in every year. In 1852, lOPer cent.
on amount of sales The increase Of taxes on
slaves, lands, goods, wares, and merchandise,
would amount then in round numbers to s53,
3l3.
The following bills received their Sd reading
in the Senate, were passed, their names changed
to acts and sent to the House Of Representa-
tives, viz:
A bill to authorize the State to afford aid in
the construction of the Cheraw and Darlington
Railroad.
A bill to authorize the State to afford aid in
the construction of the Pendleton Railroad.
A bill to incorporate the Blue Ridge Railroad
Company.
A bill entitled an act to amend the law in re-
lation to the inspection of Flour.
A bill entitled an act to amend an act to in
corporate the Northeastern Railroad Company.
A bill to incorporate the Firemen's Insurance
Company of Charleston.
A bill to alter the sittings of the Courts Of
Law in the Northern Circuit.
A bill to vest the right of the State to certain
escheated property in certain persons.
a bill to alter the charter Of the Wilmington
and Manchester Railroad Company.
Mr.. Griffin gave notice that he would, on to-
morrow, move to suspend further the 32d rule
of the Senate.
On motion of Mr. Brockman, the Senate adj
journcd till IL o'clock tomorrow.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
At the opening of the House this morning
several members received leave Of absence.
A bill to authorize the South Carolina Rail
road Company to build bridge was passed.
A bill to appropriate $500 for the purpose of
erecting a suitable building for the Deaf and
Dumb in Spartanburg, was passed.
A bill to amend the charter Of the Whining
~, o,l p,oJ o,p,n nn ~, r.. third
reading. This amendment. gives the right to
this company to extend their road to the Co
lumbia Branch.
--M Mr. .Ka,.shcw opposed the amendment. and
from the Mcrcury's correspondent, he ls@repre-
scnted to have said: that he was aware that it
was not usual to resist the passage of bill on
its third reading, but that the Importance Of this
bill was not perceived when before under consid-
Grafton. In his opinion. it was bill to provide
for the violation, by this Legislature, of the
plighcd faith of the State. The Act of 1886,
the Louisville, Cincinnati and
Charleston Railroad Company provided that no
Railroad should be authorized by the State with
in thirty-sx years from that tine, either to con-
meet with, or to run in the general direction Of
the same unless with the consent of said Com
pany. That although the gigantic scheme upon
which that Road was rrcdcated in the first in
st;,ncc lad failed, to considerable extent, yet
the South Carolina Railroad retained all the cor
porate provisions Of said Act, and possessed at
this day all the privileges conferred upon the
original Company. The Act Of 1912, uniting
the Louisville, Cincinnati and Charleston Rail
road Company, with the Canal Company, and
changing the name of the Railroad Company to
that by which it is now known, expressly enacts
that the South Carolina Railroad should be in
vested with all the powers Of the original COM
pany as contained in the Act of 1886. Indeed,
the South Carolina Railroad Company has no
oiher charter than that Of the Louisville, Cncin
natl and Charleston Railroad Company. The
Camden Branch is a part and parcel Of the South
Carolina Railroad, 1t has no separate organiza-
ton or interest whatever. 1t is merely an ex-
tension Of the South Carolina Railroad, in the
direction Of Camden. What is the proposition
then, before the House, in this B2 1t is to
enable the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad
to construct nlne miles of Railway, parallel to,
and but a few hundred yards distant from the
Camden Branch. The proposed extension of
road is entirely within the prohibited distance,
and in violation, in its extent, Of the chartered
rights of the South Carolina Raroad Company
The citizens of Kershaw subscribed to the Cam
den Road, upon the faith Of the chartered privi-