Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1866-09-29
List of Acts passed by the Legislature.

make appropriations for the year commencing
III October, 1865
An Act giving authority to the City Coun-
ell OF Charleston to proceed in the matter of
Fire Loan, with view to aid iu building up
the city anew.
An Act to amend an Act entitled an a ct
to lend the credit of the State to secure certain
bondsto be issued by tho South Carolina r ai.-
road Company: 4s,gs.;>
for tho dsow;ns, of, j;u,;s+,
for the nextterm of the Court of Common
p!eas and General Sessions for Darlington
District -
An Act to make parties plaintiffs and de-
PENDANTS, competent to give testimony in such
cases IN like manner as other witnesses
An Act to incorporate the Planters and
Farmers Relief Association
An Act to declare valid the recent election
for lntcndant and Wardcns of the town of
Darlington.
An Act to incorporate the Phunix Fire
Engine Company of Darlington.
An Act to lcgalize the elections Of munich
pal officers the towns of Moultrievillc and
Mt Pleasant
Ap Act to provide for the establishment of
Pcnitcntiary.
An Act to provide for the funding of the
interest and principal of certain stocks and
bonds of the State past due
An Act to incorporate the Peoples Mail
Steamship Company.
An Act to alter and fix the times for hold
ing tho Courts Of Common Pleas in this State.
An Act to declare the rights of persons
lately known as slaves ond as free persons of
color.
An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to
establish, District Courts
An Act to require the Commissioners of
Public Buildings for Greenvillc and Pckcns
Districts to pay over funds to the Commission
crs of the Poor of said Districts, respectively.
IN Act to incorporate tho Stonewal Fire
Engine Company of Charleston
An act to secure advances for agricultural
pu,poscs' -
An Act to amend the law in relation to the
bonds required Of public officers.
An Act to amend and extend the operation
of an Act entitled an Act to provide mode
by which to pcrpetuate testimony in relation
to deeds, wills, chooses in action, and other ra-
pcrs and records destroyed or lost during the
recent war.
An Act to provide for the redemption of
bills receivable issued by this State
An Act to vest in the city OF Columbia the
right aud title of the State in certain lots
An Act to make appropriations to meet GER
tain deficiencies in the appropriations for the
year commencing GU the lst of October, a.
ID. 1865.
LADIES SOUTHERN RELIEF ASSOCIATION
OF MARyiAND.-W learn from the Balti-
more Sum-" that the Executive Committee of
this prascwnrthy association has just pubs
lished II full report embraced in neatly print
cd pamphlet of forty.si pages, detailing the
manner in which they have disposed Of the
funds realized from the great fair held in this
city in April last. The parent society is that
of Baltimore city, with auxiliary associations
in Carroll, Baltimore, Howard, Talbot, Wash
ngton, Hartford and Kent Counties, Mary
land, and in the State Of Delaware The 6rst
distribution of funds was based Oh $108, 900,
giving to Virginia $4,000; North Carolina,
Georgia and Alabama, each, $4,000; South
Carolina, $4,000; Maryland, $4,000 Lou
isiana and Tennessee, each, S4,000 NIissis-
sippi, $4,000. The sum allotted to Mary
land was directed to be devoted to Southern
refugees and spccial cases of necessity found
in the State. The second distribution was
based on S42 200, of which 5000 went to
Virginia and North Carolina; $3.50 to South
Carolina and Mississippi, each; $6,25O to
Georgia; $1,000 to Arkansas and Florida,
eacnj AluDalna, SO,SOU 10 LOUISIANA, 81 )
500; and to Maryland, $1,000.
AIR LINE RAIIRoAD-NEw ORLEANS AND
New YoRK.-Says the Gainesville (Ga)
Eagle"
Mr. r. NJ. johnson has just returned from
a meeting of the officers of the Air Line Rail
rond, held at New York. lie reports that the
road will be built from Atlanta to Gainesville,
and that from that point two surveys will be
made--onc to Chester, S. c., via Anderson
G. H., and the other to Charlotte or Salisbu.
ry, n G., via Pcpdlcton, S. g. This road, ii
is claimed, will, when built, bo tho shortes,
route from New York to Now Orleans--as di-
rect u line as practicable and that the trip