The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-09-27
LEGISLATIVE ITEMS.

The Legislature adjourned on Friday last, after
n session of sixteen or eighteen days. From the
Carol;nian of Tuesday last We CLEAN the annexed
items of interest respecting the acts and doings OF
this body:
By Joint resolution, the donation of public lands
by the United States Government, for agricultural
purposes and the advancement of the mechanic
arts, was accepted by the State. and the Governor
authorized to appoint agent to receive and sell
the scrip, paying the proceeds into the State
Treasury. -.
The Governor is authorized to pledge the faith
and credit of the Statef for bonds amounting $780,
600. provided 900, 900 bushels of corn may be de-
liyered within the State for that sum. He is also
authorized to employ an agent to make the pnr-
chase, with salary Of $1,000 and travelling ex-
penses.
The Act authorizing the establishment of Pen-
tentiary provides for the appointment OF three
Commissioners to locate the same and erect certain
buildings, but fails to provide any compensation
to these Commissioners.
The President and Directors of the Blue Ridge
Railroad ere authorized to reduce the stock held
by the State in that company in the same proper
ton that the stock of other stockholders may be
reduced, in order to procure additional subscrlp-
tions to finish the road to Knoxville. -
The Commissioners appointed to sell the proper
tv of the State Works located at Greenvile are au-
thorzed to sell on credit not to exceed one and
two years.
Tax Collectors are allowed until the 4th of No
vember next to make their returns.
| W. p PRICE, Esq, member of the House from
Greenyile, resigned his seat on the last day of the
session.
In our next issue, we shall publish the most i'm
porant Acts passed at this session. Yielding tc
the general desire to obtain authenticated copy
of the Act .To alter and fix the times for holding
the Courts of Common Pleus in this State" We
subjoin the official copy, as published in the Pho
niz: 4-..--
I. Be ii enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives, now met and sitting, and by authori
ty of the same That from and after the ratification
| of this Act the Judges of the Superior Courts Of
Law in this State shall hold the first and next SIT
ting of the Court of Common Pleas, for the trial o
civil cases arising contrdctu in the several cir
cults now established by law in this State, in the
ensuing Spring, at the times and places IN eaci
District already established by law
II. That all writs and other process of the sale
Courts. mesne and final, now made returnables tt
the Fall Terms heretofore established, excep
mesne process in cases of tort shall be returnabl'
| to the Spring Terms of the Court, in the year o
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and SIXTY
seven, the same as if already directed; and tha
the same rules of Importance and the same orde
of proceedings now existing shall apply to th'
Courts established by the first section of this Act
III. That all writs in cases of tort shall be re
turnable, as heretofore provided by law, to tn
regular terms of the Courts as now established
and it shall be the duty of the Clerks of the Cour
of Common Pleas to prepare dockets of all cases o
tort for tho regular terms of their respective Courts
w. That no Court of Equity shall be held IL
this State before the first day of February, in tn
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ant
ssixty-scvcn: Provided, That nothing herein con
tained shall be so construed as to prevent the hear
ing of motions and cases at Chambers as now pro
vided by law.
V. That nothing in this Act contained shall pre-
vent Judges of the Court of Common Pleas an
General Sessions from hearing and determinin
applications for the substitution of judgments an
DEGREES destroyed or lost during the late war, q
heretofore.
VI That all Acts and parts of Acts of the Gen
eral Assembly of this State in conflict with tn
provisions of this Act, be, and the same are here
by, repealed.