Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-12-25
LIST OF ACTS,
Passed Jy the General assembly Of South Carolina
at The Session Of 1866.

]. An Act to incorporate the Columbia Athe
| neum.
2. An Act to incorporate Newberry College Of
the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of South Carolina
and adjacent States
3. an Act to incorporate the Columbia Steam
boat Company.
Capital stock 100000; with power to increase
to S5O,OOO
A. .4n Act to amend an Act entitled can Act tc
provide for the mea suring of timber in the City
of Charleston, and to create the Office Of Inspec-
tor and Surveyor thereof" passed Goth Dec. 1S53.
5. An Act to incorporate the Mutual Benefit
Loan Association. In Charleston.
6. An Act to authorize the City Council Of Co.
lumba to issue Bonds or Stocks and for other
purposes
I. An Act to renew the charter of the Mount
Pleasant Ferry Company.
s. An Act to declare the Canal which connects
Boggy Gut with the Lower Three Runs, n naviga-
BILE stream. In Barnwell District
Q. an Act to incorporate the Savannah River
Steamboat Company.
10. An Act to amend ''An Act for the tier
ordering and governing of negroes and other
slaves in the Province" passed 10th May, 174O.
The Act of 1740 required that indictments a
gainst owners for not sufficiently feeding and clo-
thing slaves be prosecuted before Justice of the
Quorum. The amendment passedas above directs
that such indictments be taken before the Grand
Jury and be tried in the Court of Sessions rs in
case of misdemeanors generally-thc fines to be
paid to the Commissioners of Public Buildings.
This statute is of the utmost Importance, and our
people should see to it studiously that offenders
against its provisions be brought to condign pun
ishment.
II. An Act to exempt the members of the Board
of Fire Masters and the officers and members of
the incorporated Fire Engine Companies of the
State of South Carolina, from ordinary Militia
duty after certain period of service.
The term of service required is fourteen years
from the passing of the Act provided that no
Fire Engine. Company shall have more than rs
members. 1t is hoped that this gracious bit of
legislation will galvanize our little Engine Compa-
ny into more lively existence.
II. An Act to aid in the construction of the
Charleston and Savannah Rail Road.
This Act tprovides that when the Company shall
have procured sufficient stock to grade and prepare
81 miles Of the road, the State shall endorse the
bonds of the company to an amount not exceed
ing $4,000 per mile, for the first section of twenty
miles-to be expended in procuring and laying
down the iron rails and equipping such section
and when the other twenty-mile sections are rea-
dy, the bonds for their equipment shall also be
endorsed-the State taking for security lien up
on the entire road. This is regarded an entirely
safe investment, and passed almost unanimously.
13. An Act to incorporate the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, South, on the York Circuit, and
in the town of Yorkville.
The Trustees for churches con the circuit" are
Messrs. Benjamin Rowell, James A. Wallace, Eli
jah A. Faris, James II. Postel, Robert Love, Jas.
Daniels, and S. Elau and for the church in York
vile, Mcssrs. James Jefferys, A. W. Beard, Pey-
ton B. Darwin, James S. Lewis, John E. Jefferys,
William NJ. Walker, and Miles johnson. To con-
tinue of force for twenty-one years.
IA An Act to amend an act entitled Gan Act to
exempt the Beaufort Volunteer Company of Arti-
lery from regmental reviews and for other pur-
poses."
Is. an act to establish q Court of Equity for
Clarendon District, and for other purposes.
16. an Act to vest in the Vestry and Church
Wardens of the Parish of st. Thomas and St.
Dennis, the power of purchasing and selling pro.
perty for certain purposes.
II. An Act to establish the boundary line be.
tween the Parishes of St. Stephens and St. Johns,
Berkeley.
l8. An act to amend an act entitled "An Act
to establish Clarendon County as o separate judi
cial district"
19. An Act to authorize certified copies of en-
tries from the Books of Sheriff to be given in
evidence.
co. An Act to increase the amount of the off,
cisl bond Of the Tax Collector Of Darlington.