Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-02-05
An Act
Providing for Code of the Statute Law Of
South Carolina.

South Carolina
|. BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives, now met and sitting in
General Assembly, and by the authority of
the same, That the Court of Errors be au
thorizcd and empowered to appoint a com
mission of not exceeding three persons,
whose duty it shall be to revise and codify
the Statute Law OF force in this State.
Ill. That said commission shall, in per-
formance of the duties imposed by tins Act,
arrange allstatuatory provisions on the same
subject, in a condensed form, under appro-
pirate heads that said commission shall
not simply transfer the Statutes but shall
SO alter their phraseology as to exclude, as
near as may he, all redundancy of express
ION; and where there are several Acts re.
lnting to the same subject, they shall con
dense into one Act the enactments on the
same subject, and so express the enact
mcnts as clearly to set forth the sense of the
whole, having regard to judicial cxposi-
tions thereof.
III. That whenever it shall be apparent
that there are legislative omissions i'm any
statute, said commission shall supply tic
same, 50 as to perfect such statute and rem
der its operation complete.
w: That said commission shall pcrpare
appropriate titles and subdivisions of tit
les clearly and briefly, expressive of the
subjects treated, shall make am index for
easy reference to the manuscript copy of
the code, and shall in marginal notes to the
Acts, make such references to decided Ca
ses as shall be proper for the clear clucida-
tion Of them.
V. That said commission shall report
to each session of the Legislature, for its
action, what they may have done in the
premises until the work be completed :;
and HAT the commissioners be authorized
to print in rough form their progress, for
examination by the Legislature, directing
attention therein to such additions as they
may propose to the present law
vi. That the commissioners shall each
receive for his services the sum of four
thousand GA C00) per annum, to be paid
scm-annually, on the certificate of Prcsi-
dent Of the Court of Errors. that the work
is progressing to the satisfaction of the
Court and should any vacancy occur in
the said commission from any causc, the
Court of Errors shall supply the vacancy
An Act to alter the Law in relation to
Last Wills and Tcstaments, and for 9TH
or purposes.
|. Beitenactcd by the Senate and House
of Representatives, now met and sitting
in General Assembly, and by the authority
OF the same, That from and after the pass
ing of this Act,reul estate purchased or 9TH
erwisc acquired, after the making and pub
fishing of last Wills and Tcstamcnts, shall
pass by and under the same manner and to
the same extent us personal estate now
does.
III, That all dcvises, legaces or bequcsts,
made to or in favor of any witness, or the
husband or wife ofany witness to last Wills
and Testaments, of real or personal estates,
or of both combined or of any other prop
erty, estate or interest whatsoever, and all
other interests and all offices or appoint
ments conferred on such witness, or the
husband or wife of such witness, by such
last Wills and Tcstamcnts, shall be, and the
same are hereby declared to be null and
void and such witness, or the husband or
wife of such witness, shall be competent
and credible, if otherwise so, to prove the
said last Wills and Tcstaments.
iii. That hereafter the probate, in due
form of law, by and before the proper Or
dinary, of all last Wills and Tcstaments,
whether OF real or personal properly, or of
both combined, or of any other property,
estate or interest whatsoever, shall be good
sufficient and effectual in law in the same
manner and to the same extent as if the
said last Wills and Tcstamcnts were cxclu
sively of personal estate; and no devise of
real estate shall be admitted us evidence in
any cause until after probate before the
| Ordinary.
Nv. That all Acts and parts of Acts re-
pugnant hereto, or inconsistent herewith,
be and the same arc hereby repealed.
DR.. JoHNsoN's Story TRUMpED. In
the ancient town of Newburgh, on the
Hudson, there resides an old Scotchman,
by the name of Johu Smith, or, as he calls
it, Smuh, whose vocation it is to supply
buttermilk to families in the mornings
Johnny Smuth is as well known in New
burgh, rs Washington's statue is in New
York; he has worn the same old coat for
the last forty years, and gone the usual di-
urnal round, without days absence, for
the same period. You would know that
old coat if you should meet it anywhere;
the collar covered with age and snuff for
Johnny Smuth is>a great snuffer, and, in
this respect, he is only excelled by one per-
son in Newburgh, and that's Mrs, Smuth.
One day, Johnny having delivered his thick
beverage, as was customary, made second
call unou his customers which was not -