The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-03-16
STATE aauGIsLaTunE.

I g. ~ = o fyfv SENATE. ,f D al lin 49, 4
SATURDAY, March 13.-TheI Senate as
sembled at IL Am! soe2 o. -t4si4
The House sent to the Senate the follow.
ing bills: To authorize the Common Conn.
Gil of the city of Charleston to amend an
ordinance to aid in rebuilding the burnt
district and waste places of the oitv OF
Charleston; to incorporate the Dorm Mimi Q
and Manufacturing Company, of South
| Carolina, for mining and other purposes: to
establish certain ferries; and joint resolu.
tlons to nuthorizie the Secretary of State to
purchase, for distribution and exchange,
| certain State reports; to authorize the Score.
tarv of State to purchase thirty. eight copies
of richardson S State Reports. Ali of which
received their first reading, and were ordered
| for consideration on Monday.
Acts to incorporate the Loncshoremen's =
Protective Union Association, OF Charleston,
5. G., and to amend the charter of the Sui
phuric Acid and Super phosphate Company,
were ordered to be enrolled.
message was received from the House.
stating that Senate bill to establish and
State OF South Carolina, had been laid on
the table.
The House returned TO the Senate, with
amendments, Il bill to organize and govern
the militia of the State OF South Carolina:
which were read, and after discussion
participated in by Senators Nash,
Rainey, Corbin, Leslie, Maxwell and Cain,
the amendments were agreed to.
The petition OF sundry citizens of Lex
1ngton and Richland Counties praying that
Klnsler's Ferry, over the Congaree, be not
discontinued. and the memorial of VIM.
kinsler, II. O. Kinsler and Ed Kinsler.
were referred
The Committee on Finance, to whom was
referred joint resolution from the House
OF representatives, for the appointment of
joint committee to investigate the charges
made against Governor Scott relative to
his testimony in the contested election case
of Messrs. Reed and Hoge, reported back
the same, accompanied with q joint resolu-
ton; which WAS ordered for consideration
on Monday.
Sundry reports OF committees were sub
mitted, and ordered for consideration on
Monday.
A joint ballot was entered into for the
election of the Commissioners to revise and
consolidate the statute laws of the State.
when Representatives Whipper and Sena-
tors Montgomery and Corbin were chosen.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
The House met at IL A. NJ
Representatives Bryant and S. J. Lee OH
tanned leave of absence
Reports Of committees were submitted
and discussed.
The Committee on EnSrosscl Acts re-
ported as duly and correctly engrossed for
Il third reading, Senate bill to empower
the Judges of the Circuit Courts to grant
relief III case OF erroneous Judgment obtained
during the existence of the Provisional Go
vernmeut OF South Carolina
The Committee on Railroads reported ia
voraby on Il Senate bill TO charter the
South Carolina Central Railroad.
The Committee on Railroads, to whom
was referred q bill entitled ga bill to aid
the extension Of the Chatham Railroad, 3"
beg leave to report that they have considered
the matter contained in the BILL that they
have failed to agree, and inasmuch as the
session is near its close, and the committee
Is deslrous OF winding up it's business, the
committee beg leave to return the bill to
the House for its action thereon, with the
accompanying paper, which the friends of
the measure submitted to the committee as
substitute for Section T.
A bill to make appropriations and raise
supplies for the year commencing in Octo-
Der, 1868, was put upon its second reading.
The Committee on Engrossed Acts re-
ported rs duly and correctly engrossed for
third reading, Senate bill to authorize
the consolidation of the Charlotte and
South Carolina Railroad Company and the
Columbia and Augusta Railroad Company,
and to amend the charter of the same;
which was read third time, and ordered to
be returned to the Senate, with amend
ments.
After routine business, adjourned
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