The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-03-07
sTATE .LEGIsLATURF.

SO STATE LEGISLATURE
sEvENTY-sECoND DAYS PROCEEDINGS
= SENATE.
FRIDAY, March 5.-The Senate assem-
bled at IL A. NJ
The Committee on Claims, to whom was
referred the report of the Medical Commit
tee OF the House of Representatives on the
account of DR.. Joseph Devices for a post
n'o'7ens examin nation, reported back the
same, with recommendation that the
Senate do concur. Ordered for consider
alton tomorrow
The CommitteJ on the Judiciary, to
whom was referred q bill to amend an Act
entitled "An Act to regulate the manner of
drawing juries," reported back the same,
with q, recon mendation that the bill do
pass, with the am mendments submitted by
the committee. Made the special order for
to morrow, at IL M.
of the State of South Carolina received lis
third reading, passed, and was ordered to
be returned to the House.
The message of the Governor and accom-
panying communication from Hon. VIM.
81. Seward, Secretary of State, was read, and
the joint resolution submitted by the Com
mittee on Political Disabilities to ratify the
fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of
the United States, was taken up for q
its second reading, was agreed to, and or
dered to be engrossed for q third reading.
A bill to incorporate the "Deutscher
Artillerie Und erstutzungs Verein," received
its third reading, passed, and was ordered
to be sent to the House.
The consideration of bill to alter and
amend an Act entitled San Act to author
ize additional aid to the Blue Ridge Rail-
road Company in South Carolina" was
nOS6nOna6 do ho
tomorrow, OF P. M. 80
The Speaker of the House attended in
the Senate, when the following Acts and
Joint resolution we're duly ratified: To pro-
vide for the revision and consolidation of
the statute laws of the State of South Caro-
lima; to amend an Act entitled "An Act to
establish quarantine at Georgetown,
Charleston and Hilton Head" to regulate
the agencies Of insurance companies not in
corporated In the State of South Carolina:
to- prescribe certain rules to be observed in
the government of ferries and bridges privi-
legged to charge tolls; to amend an Act enti-
tied "An Act to regulate the manner of
keeping and disbursing funds by certain
off1cers;" to incorporate the Carmel Church
!n'Pickens County; joint resolution instruct
ing the State Treasurer to pay B. 81. Rice
& 20. IN United States currency.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
The House met at IL A. hi.
Ihe COMMITTEE on interpretations re-
ported favorably on bill to renew and
amend the charters of certain towns and
villages therein mentioned.
Also, favorably on bill to incorporate
home for invalid clergymen of the .Episco-
pal Church, in the town of Aiken.
The Medical Committee reported on q bill
to establish Lazaretto or Quarantine
Hospital in the harbor Of Charleston, and
Tor other purposes, and submitted the fol-
lowing majority and minority reports:
The minority of the Medical Committee
recommend the pssage of the bill, believing
that there exists an urgent necessity for
slch action on the part of the General AS
senbly.
A majority of the Medical Committee re-
commend the indefinite postp0nement of
the bill for the following reasons:
/. We doubt the absolute necessitv for
such an expenditure.
2. If there be necessity. they dorbt the
propriety OF appropriating SO much money
to be expended on public building with
out specifications or estimates, such a
thing In their opinion being unprecedented
y. The provisions already made for the
pay and use of the health officer apgreonte
an amount within about $I00 of what was
formerly paid by the State in her palmiest
days of prosperity. .9Itss -.
4. The law now in force provides that the
commander of each vessel quarantined shall
provide quarters for such persons in his
vessel as shall be under care of health
officer. And, finally, we think that in the
present impoverished condition of the State
treasury, 1T becomes our duty to recon.
mend the above mentioned disposition of