Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-10-12
To the Membprs Of tho Bar
OF the iyurM .Cunysessioaaf District Of
South Carolina. ~

kSOUW COTOttNV'
For the purpose Of facilitating applications
for tho benefit of tho Bankrupt Act, approved
Cd Of March, 1867, and for saving costs aud
expenses, both to Applicants and Attorneys,
tho following practice is respectfully recon-
amended, to Wit:
!. Il, iI,vo Commissioners Of the United
States Court appointed in each District, bc.
fore whom Petitions aud Schedules may be
sworn to, as we'll as bcforca Register See Is.
A.. Sec. IL, Nce's Manual, 42.
2. Make up your petitions with tho eleven
forms of a. and B, omitting those upon which
no entries arc made, and havo the same sworn
to boforo Commissioner OF the United States
Court Proparc, at tho same time, a blank
order, if Voluntary Bankruptcy. referring
tho case to the Register, leaving that Of refer
ence blank, according to Form II, S. c.,
Ricc's NJ, III Thus prepared, forward the
Petition and Schedules, and blank order to
the Rcgistcr, who will examine the same, and
if found " correct in form," will SO certify
rs required under Rule 7th, &C.. Rice's NJ
106. The Register will then forward the
1 Petition and Schedules, with the blank order,
to the Clerk of tho Unitcd States Court, who
win file the Petitiona and Schedules in his Of
ice, and dcarry the blank order to the Judge
of the United States Court, to be signed bys
will be filed by the Clerk, in his Office, aud
true copy Of the same, certified under the seal
Of tho Court, forwarded to the Register.
3. Upon the receipt of the order by the
Register, so certified, he will issue his War
sant, directed to the Marshal as Messenger,
to summon the creditors of the Petitioner to
meet, at II given time, at his Office, or such
other place rs may be designated by the Court,
or by the Register, to prove their debts, Sc,
lect an Assignee, and to show cause if any
they have why the Petitioner should not be
adjulgcd Bankrupt; at that and all subsc-
Duent meetings Of creditors, they may be rep
resented by al attorney in fact, as provided
in Sec %, b. A., Rcc's NJ, 20. For form
of letter of attorney, by creditors, sec Form
CT, S. c., Ricc's NJ, $50.
4. At the first meeting Of creditors if there
be no opposing party, the Petioucr's Attor.
ncy will move that the Petitioner be adjudgcd
4 Bankrupt. If opposed, the opposing cred
itor must give notice of his objection and,
within reasonable time, file with the Regis.
ter, the spoci6ca ioas of the grounds Of his
objection. Upon the filing of the spcciica-
tons, they will be Immediately referred to the
Judge of tho Unitei States Court. Sec IL,
B. a., Rice's NJ, -.
S. The Fifty Dollars, required under the
Act to be deposited with tho Clerk, to be
paid to the Register, must in all cases accom-.
pany the Petition.
w. I. CLAWSON,
Register 18th Congressional District.
lorhriUc s c., September "a, 1867.
New YoRK, October 5.-Thc following arc
among the Albany resolutions
l. That regarding the national debt as
sacred obligation, we demand economy Of nd
m;nstration, honesty in the collection and ap-
plication of the revenues, simpliicuton of,
and equality in, taxation and currency for
the benefit of the people, instead of to cor
porations, to tho end that the public faith may
(. be preserved and'the burdens Of ia xaton les
ss.sened. That we dcnounee tho efforts of the
radical party to retain the poYerit has ns,al
mad ha T0EcG, coupled with the dis,
y sffanchisement Of the mass of the white pop.
Saulation, as an outrage upon Democratic prin-
cipes and an attempt to undermine and de-
stroy the Republic, and that we stigmatizc the
refusal of that party in this State to submit
the question of the negro suffrage to the pco
pie, as cowardly evasion of paramount is
sue iii the poudiug struggle.
RICHMOND, October 5.-It is understood
that the colored voters here ageced to run
three whites 'and two blacks for the conycu-
ton Messrs lIunnicut and Wardell are two
of the whites. The Republican negro con.
vcntion, in Henrico, to-day, nominated G. d,
Swami for the convention, throwing out All
ex-Federal Colonel, who was candidate for
the nomination.
Mrs Annie +. Kirby, convicted Of the
murder Of her husband, has been sentenced
to seven years in the pententiury.
Mr.. Davis trial will certainly take place in
November. The counsel on both sides are
ready. He is expected to arrive hero about
the 25th
THE PBEsByrERY OF SouTH CAROLINA
This ecclesiastical body, as was expected, met
in Spartanburg on last Thursday, and eontn
ued its sessions until Saturday evening. !
sis one of the four Presbytcries of the Presby.
terian Church in this State, and includes all
the ministers and churches belonging to that
denomination Of Christians in the Northwcs.
tern Districts. There we're present, MS mem.
bers of the body twenty three ministers and
as many ruling elders. The proceedings of
the Presbytery brought up usual routine of
ecclesiastcal business. The reports on the
state Of religion in the several churches were
generally encouraging, and several revvals
were mentioned rs having occurred during
tho past year.