Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-01-23

10 compel any person holdiug more than
twenty-five pounds of powder, to store the
sane therein, and to make regulations for
rates OF storage thereof, and for keeping aud
/ delivering the same And the said Town
| Council shall have power to enforce the
payment of all taxes and assessments levied
under the authority of this Act againstthc
property and persons of defaulters, to the
same extent, and in the same manner, as
is provided by law for the collection of the
general State tax, except that executions
to enforce the payment of the town taxes
shall be issued under the seal of the corpor-
alton, and directed to the town marshal or
other person specially appointed by the sad
Town Council to collect the same; and all
/ property on which tax shall be levied and
assessed, is hereby declared and made liable
for the payment thereof, in preference to
other debts due by the person owning such
property at the time of the assessment ex-
ccpt debts due the State, which shall be first
paid.
That the said Town Council shall have
power, with the consent of the adjacent
landowners, to close all such roads, streets
and ways, within the said town as they
may deem necessary, by sale of the freehold
therein, either at public or private sale, as
they may adjudge best for the interest of
the said town; and they shall also have
power to lay out, adopt, open and keep in
repair, all such new streets, roads and WAYS,
as they may from time to time deem impor
tant or necessary for the Improvement of
SAID town; PrOoidea, That no new street
road, or way, shall be opened without first
having obtained the consent of the land
owner or owners, through whose promises
any such new street, road or way, may pass.
That the charter of the town of Pickcns
that hereafter @ The ToG@shh GSannef df saqaa
town shall have power to compound with
all persons liable to road duty, by requiring
the payment of an annual sum of money in
lieu of the performance of such duty, the
money so received to be applied to thc pub
llc use of said corporation; and all persons
falling or refusing to pay such commuta-
ton shall be liable to such fines and penal
ties as the said Town Council may impose.
That the said Town Council shall have
power to collect an annual tax on all lots,
lands, buildings, free persons of color, en-
ploynents, faculties, professions, merchon-
dlzo, and other articles, within the corpor-
ate limits of the said town, Which now arc,
or hereafter may be, subject to taxation by
the State; ProUidc2, That the amount so
levied and collected shall not exceed in any
one year the amount collected by the State
An Act for the Relief of Prosecutors and
Witnesses i'll Criminal Cases not Capital.
!, BE enactcdby the Senate and House
OF Representatives, now met and sitting in
General Assembly, and by the authority OF
the same, That hereafter, when any prose
cutor, resident in The judicial district where
the prosecution is instituted, in criminal
cases less than capital, shall have been
committed to Jail by reason of his or her
inability to give surety, on his or her re.
cognlzancc to prosecute, the Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas and General Scs.
sions of such District, shall have power to
discharge such prosecutor on his or her own
recegnlzancc, upon being satisfied of his or
her inability to give such surety
Ii, That wheneTerany witness in Grim.
lnai case less than capital, shall have been
committed tojail by the like inability to
give surcty on recognizance 20 testify, the
Clerk of the Court shall have the like poty.
or TO discharge such witness on his or her
| own rccogn2mce.
III. That prosecutors on witnesses fail.
ing to appear under such rccognizancc,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemcanor,
and the Attorney General and Solicitors
arc hereby authorized to order warrants to
issue against such offenders, without afida-
! yit or bond to prosecute.
Nv. That the Clerks of the Court shall
be entitled to one dollar costs for each re-
cognizance taken under this Act
ORAToRf.AIn looking over some old pn.
pors day or two since, we stumbled over
speech delivered by Henry Clay before tho
students of the New York State and Nation
| al Law School. Speaking of the art of ex-
| temporaneous speaking, he said.
" I owo my successin life to one single fact.
viz: that at the age of twenty-seven, COM
mencod and continued for years the process
OF daily reading and speaking upon the con-
fonts OF some historical and Scientific book,
Phscc of.hand efforts were made sometimes
in cornfeId, at others in the forest and
not untrequently i'll some distant barn, with
the horse and the OK for my auditors Itis
TO TINS early practice of the great art of all
arts th@t am indebted for the primary and
leading impulses that stimuatedamc forward.
and have shaped and moulded my entire sub
sSequcnt destiny. Improve, then, young gen
tIemen, the superior advantages you here en-
Joy. Let not day pass W.ithoGt exercising
your powers of speech. There is no power
ilke tina OF oratory.f Caesar eeatFolled men g
by EXCITING their fears; Cicerc3by captiyat-
ing their affections and swaying their pas
sions. The influence ofthe one perished with
tie author; shat ef the ctl.eH continues to this