The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-09-05
THE EEGIRnATURE.,
PROCEEDINGS OF FIFTY-FoURTH DAY.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIV

offered o resolution to authorize the
Governor to make temporary appoint
naents Of Justices of the Peace, which
was referred to the Coiumittee on
Officers and Offices. 3
The Committee on Vacant Offices
reported on the communication of
W. j. Lee, declining to act as County
Commissioner Of williamsburg, and
recommend that the Office be de-
clared vacant and new election or
dered. Adopted.
Communications were received
from the Governor, announcing his
approval of the joint resolution to
appropriate $4,000 for the pay and
mileage of members, and also cover
ing request from the municipal au-
thorities of Columbia, that the fenc-
ing around the new State House be
restricted to its proper boundaries, as
it touches upon the public streets.
The latter was properly referred.
The bill to establish the Counties
of Oconee and Pickens, as Judicial
Districts, was read the third time and
passed.
The bill to incorporate the Colum-
bia Educational Society (darkies) was
read the third time and passed.
The resolution proposing that the
General Assembly adjourn sine die on
the 11th instant, was laid on the
table.
The bill to allow minors and others
to recover monies, stocks, bonds, &C.,
converted by guardians and others
into Confederate money, was post
poned until the regular session.
The Railroad Committee reported
favorably on the bill to authorize ad-
ditional aid to the Blue Ridge Rail
road, and the bill was read the first
time. 1t authorizes the President and
Directors of the road to issue 81, ,OOO,-
600 worth of bonds for the payment
of contracts, under the Act of De-
cember 81. 1854; no issue of bonds
under that Act having been previous
ly made, and for the payment of
these bonds the faith and credit of
the State is pledged and the Comp
troller- General directed so to endorse
on them. It further pledges the faith
and credit of the State for the pay
ment of 100000 worth of bonds
to be paid for the fulfllment of con-
tracts; provided the interest shall not
exceed Z per cent, and further pro-
v1ded that no part of such bonds
shall be used unless Congress or pri-
vate capitalists furnish the money in
exchange for or on the security of
these bonds. All the property of the
road in Georgia, Tennessee and South
Carolina, is pledged by mortgage
having priority of all future liens for
the payment of these loans. The
Board of Direction is to be increased
to fifteen, of whom the Governor
shall be &c o6icio aYmember. The
Governor is authorized to draw
$50, 900 in bills receivable, from the
State, to keep the road in working
order.
The bill to appoint commission to
codify the statute laws of the State
was passed, with an amendment, ap-
pointing D. T. Corbin, James NJ.
Rutland and W. j. Whipper, (negro,)
as commissioners.
SENATE.
Nothing of importance was done in
this body. The attention of the
members was principally devoted to
the consideration of o communication
spread before them by the President,
to whom it was addressed, recording
the fact that Republican County
Convention, of Barnwell, had re-
quested Senator Leslie to resign his
seat, as his speeches and actions in
dicated that he no longer represented
the party which had placed him in
power The reading of the paper
having been concluded, Mr.. Leslie
addressed the Senate in his usual
vigorous style, showing that the
County Convention referred to, was
composed Of fifteen men, eleven of
whom were negroes, who could
neither read nor write, and the rest
mean white men, whom he had ac-
tually saved from disgrace and starva-
ton.
Randolph, Senator from the burnt
district, made several efforts to
launch into one Of his fits of black
guardism, but even those of his own
color and party cried him down; and
he succeeded in saying nothing more
in substance than, that he was pre-
sent at the Convention which nomi-
mated Leslie, to which Leslie replied
soto rOce. but loud enough to be