The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-04-28
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Acts Passed by the State legislature.

HouSe of Representatives Of The State of South
Carolina, no'0 met and sitting in General As
Sen,biy, dndby Tie authority Of the same, That
IL snail be unlawful for any person within
the limits or this State, who has not attend
ed two full courses of instruction and ora
duated at some school of medicine, either in
the United States or some foreign country,
or who cannot produce q certificate Of quail
hcatlon from some State medical society.
and is not person of good moral character
to practice medicine, or prescribe medicine
or medicines for reward or compensation,
Tor any sick person within this State: Pro-
utded, That in all cases when any person has
been continuously engaged in the practice
OF medicine for period Of ten years or
more, and can produce q certificate 10 that
effect, either from some physician of good
standing or from three citizens, one of
whom shall be qualified to administer an
oath according to tho laws of the State. he
shall be considered to have complied with
the provisions of this Act
SIC. e any person living in this State.
or any person coming into this State, who
shall practice medicine in any of its depart
ments, or perform, or attempt to perform.
any surgical operation, upon any person
within the limits of said State, in violation
OF Section of this Act shall, upon convic-
tion thereof, be fined not less tnan ifty nor
more than one hundred dollars for such Of
fence. and, upon conviction for q second
violation of this Act, shall, in addition to
the above fines, be imprisoned in the Coun-
ty jail of the County in which said offence
shall have been committed, for the term of
ninety days. And in no case wherein this
Act shall have been violated shall anv per.
son SO violating receive a compensation for
services rendered: Prouided, That nothing
herein contained shall in any way be con-
strued to apply to any person practicing
dentistry, or females practicing midwifery.
SEC. 3. All Acts, or parts of Acts, incon-
sistent with the above are hereby repealed.
Approved February 26, 1869.
An Act TO ratJfy, confirm and amend The char
ter OF Me Charleston, South Carolina, Mining
and ManWacturing Company.
SECTION l. Be ii enacted Jv The Senate and
House Of Representatives Of lie State of South
Carolina, mO'c met and sitting in General As
sem6ty, and blythe authority Of The same, The
charter taken out by the Charleston, South
Carolina, Mining and Manufacturing Com
pany, under the provisions of au Act enti-
tied .'An Act to authorize and regulate the
creation of private corporations within this
State" approved December twentieth,
Ammo Domini eighteen hundred and sixty
six, be, and the same is hereby, amended rs
follows: The capital stock shall consist OF
six hundred thousand dollars, and shall
be divided into six thousand shares of
one hundred dollars each; and the President
and Directors of said company may issue
stock to the full amount of the assessed
value thereof said assessment to be taken
from the books of the Assessors of the
County in which said property is situated,
and the stock so issued shall be declared
and taken to be full stock, and not liable to
any further calls.
SEC. 2. The said company shall have the
right to increase its capital to one million of
dollars by vote of the stockholders thereof,
representing two-thirds Of the capital stock
at any meeting of the stockholders called in
the manner prescribed by the bylaws.
SEC. 3. Every stockholder of said com
pany shall be, Jointly, severally and indi-
vidually, liable for all debts that may be
contracted for materials furnished, or that
may be due and owing to all their laborers,
servants and apprentices, for services per,
formed for said corporation: Prooilled,
That no person holding stock in the said
company as executor, administrator, guard
Ian or trustee, and no person holding such
stock as collateral security, shall be person
ally subject to any linbi ity as stockholder
OF such company, but the person pledging
snch stock shall be considered MS holding
the same. and shall be liable as stockholder
accordingly: Andprovide9, further, That no
stockholder shall be personally liable for
more than the par value of his stock, or for
the payment of any debt contracted by the
said company which is not to be paid within
one year from the time the debt is contract
ed, nor unless a suit for the collection of
such debt shall be brought against said com
pany within one year after the debt shall
become due. And no suit shall be brought
against any stakeholder who shall cease to
De stockholder in said company, for any
debt 30 contracted, unless the same shall be
commenced within two years from the time
he shall have ceased to be a stockholder in |
said company, nor until an execution against
the company shall have been returned un-