The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-08-06

election or the same and for one full
term thereafter, and until their sue
cessors are duly elected and quali-
fled. The rest of the bill contains
i details OF no public interest. IS
The bill to declare vacant certain
Offices and for other purposes, was
taken up, read second time and.
passed. The bill reads as follows:
Be al enacted by the Senate and
House Of Representatives. oftte State Of
So,ah Carolina, so,o met and sitting IL,
General Assembly, and by the authority
Of the same, That all State, County
and municipal Offices, whether filled
by election or appointment, in this
State, be, and the same are hereby,
declared vacant, from and, after the
passage of this bill, except such
offices as were filed by the election
of April IA, Is and 16, and June 2
and 3, 1868, held in pursuance of
General Orders emanating from
Headquarters Second Military Dis
trict, or are required in the Constitu-
tion to be made by the Legislature.
SEQ. 2. It shall be, and is hereby,
made the duty of the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of
the Senate, to fill, by appointment,
all Offices not filed by the election
aforesaid; or, when the person
elected cannot qualify, give bonds or
for any reason fail to enter on the
discharge of the duties of his Office
within ten days after this bill be-
comes q law; and the person 80
appointed shall continue in Office
until filed by election; and, in case
of political disabilities, until the
same are removed, should that be
done before the regular election
under the Constitution to fill such
office; provided, the Governor shall
have power to remove, whenever the
public good, in his judgment, re-
quires it; but the provisions of this
Act shall not extend to appoint
ments from Mayors and Aldermen,
and from Intendants and Wardens of
incorporated cities and towns, which
shall be filled as provided for by
their respective charters, not in con-
flict with the Constitution.
Sec. 3. That the election of April
IA, Is and 16, and of June 2 and 3,
1868. held in conformity with the
Acts of reconstruction, and all orders
issued in pursuance thereof, be, and
are hereby, declared valid, and all
persons elected at such election are
declared to be entitled to the imme-
date possession of the offices to
which they have been elected, upon
their qualifying and giving the bonds
required by law
Sec. 4. And be il further enacted,
That If any person or persons hold
ing any Office or offices hereby de-
clared vacant shall refuse to surren-
der the same to the person or persons
elected at the election aforesaid, or
hereafter to be held, or appointed in
pursuance of the power herein con-
ferred, such Office or offices, together
with all moneys, books, records,
papers and property, of any kind or
character whatever, pertaining there
to, whenever such person or persons
so elected or appointed shall have
qualified and given the bonds re-
quired by law, such person or persons
shall be deemed guilty of q misde-
meanor, and, on conviction thereof,
shall be punished by fine or impri-
sonment, or both. in the discretion
Of the court; such fine not to exceed
one thousand dollars, nor be less
than one hundred dollars, and such
imprisonment not to exceed one
year at hard labor in the penitentiary.
All Acts, or parts of Acts, inconsist-
ent herewith, are hereby repealed.
The House then adjourned
SENATE.
Cain presented bill for the incor-
poration Of the Wando Company,
viii ch was read first time and re
ferred.
Nash gave notice of bill "to de-
fine the law of contracts for hire"
The vote by which the favorable
report of the Committee on Finance,
on the petition of Mrs. Mary A. G.
Hobbs, of Lexington, praying a re-
mission of double tax, was adopted,
was reconsidered and the report re-
committed.
The bill to incorporate the educa-
tional society of Columbi was read
q second time and ordered to be en-
crossed.
The bill authorizing the Governor
to negotiate loan of 1925, 900, was
passed-yeas 16; nays S.
The joint resolution authorizing an