Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-01-02
Appropriations Made at the Recent
Session of the Legislature.


The following sums are appropriated fol
the payment OF the various officers and ex
penses of the State Government: For the
salary of the Governor, $500; Private Sec
retary of the Governor, $1,000; Messenger
of the Governor, $100; contingent fund o.
the Executive Department, $25,0O0, subject
to the draft of the Governor. and to be &C.
counted for annually to the Legislature; for
rent of Governors house in Columbia, $500
for printing and preparing bonds, stocks and
record books, under Act Of 21st September
1866, to provide for funding the interest and
principal of certain stocks and bonds of the
State past due, $l,lOo, to be drawn on check
of tho Governor; for printing and preparing
bonds, stock and record books for funding
the fire loan stock and bonds, authorized the
present session, $500, to be drawn on check
of the Governor; for two watchmen for the
new State House and grounds, $3.50; to be
drawn on draft of State House Keeper.
For pay of the members of the Legislature,
Attorney General and Solicitors, during the
present session, $4,000; for salaries of the
Clerks of the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives, $1,000 each, sand for the services
of two assistant Clerks, $3.50 each; for sala-
ries of two Messengers and two Door-keepers,
$3.50 each; for Messengers of the House and
Senate, for extra services as mail carriers,
$50; for Messenger of House, for similar
services at last extra session, S25; for salary
of the Keeper of the State House and Libra
rian, $500 for salaries of the Reading Clerks
of the Senate and House, $3.50 each for the
services of four EngrossiDg Clerks, same pay
and mileage allowed members of the General
Assembly, and $l25 for services of extra En-.
crossing Clerks at the present session; for
printers of the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives for the present session, $4,000,
and that the number Of copies specified in
the proposals of the printer as accepted by
the Legislature, shall be printed and deposited
in the Office of the Treasurer of the State, at
Columbia, before the first day of March next,
and the amount to be paid according to the
proposals, which shall be .scertained by the
Treasurer; for stationery, fuel, distributing
Acts, and expenses of the election returns,
to include the sums due Messengers for bring.
ing and delivering to the Secretary of State
the returns of elections for members of Con-
gress, $1,000; for contingent expenses Of the
Legislative Library, 5000; $7O0 for the pay
and mileage of the special joint committee
on the bank, sitting during the recess; for
the necessary expenses incurred by the special
railroad commission, appointed at the extra
session, 1852; to Theodore Stark, Keeper Of
the State House and Librarian, $52S, appro-
priated at last session, for arrearages of sala-
~; for defraying the expenses Of special joint
committee appointed at last regular session
OF the General Assembly to inquire and re-
port as to the disposition Of certain public
property, $500. -
For salary of Chief Justice, $500; for
salaries Of ten Judges, $1,000 each; for salary
of Attorney General, i,loO; for salaries of
five Solicitors 5000 each for Clerk of Court
of Appeals, who shall be Librarian, $500,
the came to include expenses of fuel; for
salary OF Messenger of said Court, $500 for
purchaee of books fo;' library of .;;ourt of
Appeals, 81 900, tc be drawn and expended
by order of the presiding Justice; for fire.
wood -audfuel for Court of Appeals, $40; for
salary of State Reporter, $1,000; for pay OF
jurors and cops!ables, $4,000.
For salary of Treasurer OF State, SS,2OO,
including tho salaries Of one or mere clerks ;
for salary Of Comptroller General, $2,5OO,
including clerks salary; to Comptroller Gen
eral, $500, for making out copies Of tax re.
turns in 1867, and like sum for like services
10 1866; for Assessor of St. Philips and St.
Michael's, for making out aud afixng assess
menss of each return, $500.
For salaries of eleven professors in the
University Of South Carolina, Sll 900; for
Librarian of University, who stAll be Secre
tary OF the Board Of Trnsscea 5000, to be
paid bT the Treasurer OF the State, quarterly
in advance; for repairs Of University build,
ings, $4,000.
For payment of contingent accounts of the
State, $4,000; for payment such claims as
may he admitted by the Legislature at its
present session, $4,000; for eduostion of the
deaf and dumb and the blind, $1,000; for
repairs OF the buildings at Cedar Springs,
$1,000; for support of free sckouls $4,000,
to be distributed on the baais Of representa-
ti1n in the popular branch Of the General
Assembly for payment Of such other claims
or demands on the State, as may be allowed
by the General Assembly upon the reports
OF other committees, $4,000; for Ianatic
Asylum, $4,000.
For salary aud services Of Secretary OF
State, saO0; in lieu of all charges against
the State for signing commissions.
For maintaining and keeping open the Ro.
per Hospital, in Charleston, $1,000; to be
paid to the Medical Society in trust for the
Roper Fund.
For the support oe the Catawba Indians,
$l,aO0; to be paid to the order Of the Indian
Agent, and to be expended under 'he direc'
ton Of the Governor.
For The rent and fixtures of o house for
the use of the Court of Appeals, $500. For
expenses incurred by Committee on Emf,
grafton, appointed session 1866, $500 20 be
paid on draft Of John a. Wagener, Chairman
For clerks on Committee on Education and
Accounts, 800. For the purchase Of artificial
LEGS for citizens of this State who have lost
theirs in the service OF the country in the
recent war, $4,000. For testing in the courts
the constitutionality of the Act Of Congress;
by which lands have been sold in St. Helena
and St. Luke's Parishes, $4,000; to ha srawr
subject to tho order Of the Toyeipor
That tha sum Of $4,000 be appropriated
for the following purposes; $1,000 for per
nanent jail for Richland; $1,000 do. 70!
Darlington; $l,50o, in addition to $1,000
already appropriated to build temporary jai
ior Sumter, $4,000 temporary do. for Ches
teraeld. 81 800 in addition to ST. 600 already
appropriated for Barnwell do. for Beaufort
Sl 900 to complete Jail and court bcuse in
Lexington $l,5OQ for completing Jail il
Lancaster. For covering new State House
with tin roof, $4,000. For the construc
ton OF Penitentiary, S45,oooi to be. palc
ou draft Of Governor from time to time a.
same may be needed, not to be drawn unit
estimates furnished and work contracted Tor
THE TAX ACT,
Upon the following articles, there shall bt
an od ralorem tax paid, as property according
to its assessed value, viz: On all real estate
On oorto IN averv Sl()0. eYcept such lands a.