Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-01-21
Acts Of the Legislature.
An Act further to provide for cnao Of

/, BE 1t caocteI by the Senate and House
of Representatives, now met and sitting in
General Assembly, aud by the authority of
the same, That in lieu of the provisions ior
code, made at the last session, the following
provisions be now made, to.wit:
Commissioner shall annually, during the
pleasure of the Legislature, be elected by
joint ballot of the two Houses of the General
Assembly, whose duty it shall be to prepare
for the consideration of the Legislature. such
a cadG of Statute Laws as, il enacted, might
in connection with the portions of the Com
mon Law that would be left unatcrcd, consti
tutc the whole body of law in this State.
ii. In the preparation of the code, order,
brevity of expression, consistent with porspi-
cuity, and adherence to what is established
where the reasons for change are not decisive.
shall be governing principles but at the dis
crction of the Commissioner, regulated by
these principles, repoals and alterations of cx
lsting law and additions to it, may be intro
duccd, so that there may be presented scheme
of what the law should be-
Ill. When any portion of proposed law
has been written for the code, notes and ref!
ercnces shall be added to it, showing if the cx-
istlng law has been preserved unchanged. or
changed only in expression; where the OK
listing law is to be found if change in sub
stance has been made, showing what the
change is and the reasons which induced it
and III every instance referring to the eases
which have been adjudgcd in the Courts of
tins State explanatory of the law as it is, and
as it may be proposed
~ Once, or oitcncr, at the discretion of
the Commissioner, in every year, at least one
month before the meeting OF The LEGISLATURE
there shall be printed at least two hundred
ana nifty copies OF such portions of the code
as may have been prepared, with suitable in
ue%cS, ana such remarks, explanations and sug
geStlonS may seem proper to the Comms-
slooner: or these copies, the Commissioner
may distribute fifty at his will, and the re-
maIndcr shall be for the use of the member;
OF the LEGISLATURE, to be sent or deposited as
may be ordered by joint resolution.
v Atan carly day in every session, the
commissioner shall report to the Legislature
all ttat has been printed, as before mentioned,
and also hls views concerning what has been
done, and what remains to be accomplished,
OF tho work committed TO him, according to
inc ryan aud method adopted by him. upon all
OF when such action as shall seem proper to
inc LegS'aiurc may be taken
L. ror his personal services, the Commis-
S'ohef snaIl receive 1--WE thouSanl dollars a
year. TO De pmo quarterly lie Shall be at
hocrty TO oappointtw TWO or more assistants, who
IN inc whole shall receive sum not exceed
ms 'lour thousand dollars year; he shall fix
,he compensation OF each assistant by contract,
Dut not soas to allow to any one of them more
th@n TWO thousand dollars year; upon his
Hrait, the compensation thus fixed shall be
pad quart 'ly, and, at every session OF the
Legislature, he shall report the names of his
assistants, and the compensation allowed for
the past year The expenses Of printing, sta
tlonery and postage necessary for the work,
certified by the Commissioner, shall all be paid
out OF the public Treasury, under an appro-
PF'atioh TO be made at the next session after
thCy nave Decn so certified.
~. The Commissioner, and his assistants
"hGer ms order, snail, for prosecution OF their
work. nave iuli access to the Legislative li-
or"fy' ana to inc pubic archives, during the
session OF the Legislature and during there
cesSes also. with PERMISSION OF the Judges
TO- the ll0rallcS OF thc Courts OF Appeal, and,
WIN permission OF me trustees, to the Libra
~ oi '''c 's1",h N"'oi'n' Ioilegr; he Com
four copies of the Statutes at Large. with con-
tinuatlons Of such parts thereof as may be
! found in any of the public dcpositores; and
to buy at the pmblip expense (not exceeding
five hundred dolIals,) one or two COPIES of
Trott's Laws, Grfnkes Public Laws, Brcvard' 8
Digest, james Digest, and such Codes, Di-
gcsts, Statutes and Reports of Commissioners
made in other States and countries, aa he may
dpn,n ucnfInl in hig y,orly n,,,,nt e,,1 -,