Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-02-23
Acts of the Legislature.


lutary effect.
-" An act to require and regulate the granting Of
iioensesto inerant statesmen and travelling agents,
passed in 1862 has been repealed.
The "Shoh Baptist Church. :" in Anderson dis.
trics; Richland Church." in Pickens district ::
and ''Thc Walhala Charitable Society" were "con-
stitufed bodies polite and corporate, each for the
Term oil fourteen years, with full powers respec
! hVeiy to appoint succession of trustees vestry
and wardens, officers and members, according to
thcir respective bylaws and shall have power re-
spectiVely, to make by laws, not repugnant to the
laws of the land, and to have, USE and keen COM
mon seal, and the same to alter will 10 sue and
be sued, in any court in this State; and to have
and enjoy every right power and privilege incident
TO such corporations and they are hereby empow-
| cred to hold, RETAIN possess and enjoy all such
property, real and personal, they may now sew
orally have and possess be entitled to, or which
shall hereafter be given, bcqueathed or devised to
tnem' respectively, or i'm any manner acquired by
theih anu TO sell, alien transfer the same or any
part thereof: Provided, that the amount so held
shall in no case exceed the sum of $50,00O"
An act to lend the name and credit of the State
to the GreenYille and Columbia Railroad, )" provides
| that the Comptroller General shall endorse the
guarantee OF the State the bonds of the said
| company to the amount of 5000, 900, for the re
adjustment Of the debt of the said compnny the said
| road and the property of the company to stand
mortgaged to the State for the payment of the A.
! foresaid amount.
An act to aid in the construction of the GEORGE
town Railroad gives in bonds, $1,000 per mile
TOR that purpose; for which the State is to
receive stock in said road
There are three sections in the "act TO incorno.
rate certain societies, associations and companies -
locally interesting The first is, that all persons
who are now, or hereafter may become members of
" The "ahalla Rife Company" and the "Palmet-
to Riiicmen' of Anderson with other companies,
NC. be, and the same are hereby declared bodies
polite and corporate, by the names to each of them
hcrcinbetore respectively assigned. The said com.
panies shall have power to acquire and hold prop
erty both real and personal. and the same to sel
ana convey, to an amount not exceeding five thou.
sand dollars each; to make all such bylaws rules
aud regulations, not repugnant to the laws of the
land. for tho establishment, organization and gov
| ernment ot>saiu companies, respectively and the
| transaction Of the business thereof, as each NAV
ueem necessary and proper; TO hold company courts
martial for the trial of all infractions of the by
laws, rules and regulations of said companies 70
issue process of execution for the collection of the
| fnesimposed by such courts martial of the same
KIND and OF the same force and effect, and to be
| executed in the same manner, ms now REQUIRED by
| law in cases Of process issued by courts martial
! organized under the militia laws of this State TO he
returned to such officer of the said company MS the
bylaws thereof may direct; to have succession of
officers and members; to sue and be sued by their
corporate names; and shall have such other rights
powers and privileges as are incident to like bodies
corporate: Provided. however, that nothing here
| IN contained shall be construed as to exempt
the said companies from any military service that
may be required by the laws of this State, or from
answering Tor default OF such service to any court
| martial OF the brigade regiment to which said
| companies, or either Of them, may belong
That the charter of the " Keowee and Tucka-
seegee Turnpike Company be, and the same is
hnrn hv nlf enl. IL
empower the said company to extend their road
from its present southern terminus. west of the
stump House Tunnel, to the town of Walhalla in
Pic<ens district, with the same rates of toll ms now
allowed by law; and. for that purpose, the said
company Is hereby invested with all the powers and
privileges and subjected to all the duties and Lin
bilities, conferred and imposed upon them by an
act entitled "an act to incorporate the Keowee
and Iuckasecgee Turnpike Company, ratified on
the 10th day of December 1856: Provided that
the citizens of Pickens district shall be forever ex-
empt from paying any tax toll for travelling over
the said road, and also from any assessment of la
bor or money to construct or keep in repair the
same, or any part thereof.
That Elijah llinkle, and such persons as he
may associate with him, be and they are hereby
created body polite and corporate, by the name
and style of the Cane Crock and French Broad
Turnpike Company" for the term of fourteen years.
i0r tne purpose OF constructing aturnpkc road from
Hinkle Mills, in Pckens district to tho line of
Jackson county, North Carolina and for that pur-
pose the said company is hereby invested with all
the powers and privileges incident to such corpora
tions. That the said turnpike road be- and the
sameis hereby vested in Elijah Hinkle and his as
sociates, for the term of fourteen wears, with the
right to charge the following rates of TOLL For ev
cry four or six-horso wagon and team fifty cents;
for every two horse wagon carriage thirty cents:
Tor every one-horso wagon, buggy, or other veh.
Gle twenty cents; for every on horseback ten
centsi every loose horse, three cents; eyery head
OF hogs. two cents; every head of sheep one cent:
and every foot passenger, five cents"
An Act to amend the Law in Relation TO ,fouse
Burning.
l. he II enacted by the Senate and House Of
Representatives, now met and sitting in General
Assembly and by the authority of the same,
fhat the wllful and malicious setting fire to. or
| burning any house, of whatever name or kind.
within the curtilage or common inclosure of a
dwelling house. or within the curtilage or com.
mon Enclosure of any house or room wherein
persons habitually sleep, whereby any such
dwelling house or sleeping apartment shall be
endangered; also, the wilful and malicious SET.
| ting ire to or burning any Court House or other
public building whether owned by the State or
a corporation. n building owned by an ndj-
vIdual or individuals and kept and let for pub
llc meetings or exhibitions, barn. stable c,ncb
I house. gin house, store house, ware house eriSt
or saw mill, railroad depot, coach or cotton fac.
tory, or other house used for manufacturing.
| purposes, OF whatever name or kind NJ setting
hre to or burning any house habtually used for
public religious worship. shall be deemed arson
whether such setting fire to or burning be in
the day or night time; and the person setting
hre to or burning any sGch house as aforesaid
| ana ms or her aiders, nbettors and accessnries