The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-03-25
STATE LEGISLATURE.
H., , SENATE.

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The accounts Of DR.. w. s. MORALS for
post n,orten, examination, and J. W. Denny
for stationery furnished the Senate, were
referfed. ID d 4
The Committee on Engrossed Bills. re-
ported back as correctly engrossed u bill to
provide for the appointment Of a Land
Commissioner, and to define his powers and
duties. The bill received its third reading,
was agreed to, and returned to the House
A resolution was adopted. that tho Clerk
OF the Senate be instructed to advertise for
bids to furnish this body with stationery,
&C., for use at the next regular session.
message was received from the Govern
or, stating that he had approved the follow
ing Acts and joint resolution, viz: An Act
to provide for the conversion of State secu-
rites; an Act to alter and amend the char
ter of the town of Greenville, and for other
purposes; joint resolution to authorize and
direct the Comptroller General of the State
to provide and furnish Offices for officers of
the Executive Department.
bill to provide for the care Of the poor
was continued to the next regular session.
resolution was adopted, that $500 be
appropriated for the purchase of a new
carpet for the Senate, and that the old one
DO turned over to the Sergeant-at-Arms.
A concurrent resolution by the General
Assembly of South Carolina. requesting
Congress to aid the construction of the
Memphis Ell Paso and Southern Trans
Continental Railroad on the line of the 32d
parallel of latitude to the Pacific Ocean, was
concurred in, and ordered to be returned to
the House.
Majority and minority reports Of tho
Special Committee, on bill to provide for
system of vaccination in this State, were
continued to tho next regular session Of the
General Assembly.
A joint resolution to authorize the Secre-
tary of State to purchase thirty eight copies
of Richardson's State Reports was ordered
to be engrossed.
Bills to incorporate the Ashley Bridge
Company; and to define contracts for labor
crs, were postponed to the next regular
session
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
The House met ut IL A. NJ.
The account of +. r. Calhan, NJ. D., of
Abbeville County, for post moyie,a examina-
ton, was referred.
Senate bills to regulate aud define the law
of divorce; to incorporate the South Caro-
lima Plantation Companay; to incorporate
the Noiscless Traction Engine Company;
and to determine and perpetuate the home
stead, We're postponed until the next regu-
lar session.
a bill to establish company under the
name OF the Mount Pleasant and S livan' =
Island Ferry Company, and to extend the
aid OF the State to the same was indefinitely
postponed.
The enacting clause of bill (House) to
alter and amend an Act entitled IAN Act to
organize the Circuit Courts" was stricken
out.
The accounts of the Columbia post Office
for box rent and postage, and j. W. Denny,
for stationery furnished tue House of Rep
resentatives, were referred.
The enacting clause of bill to invest
Clerks of Courts of Common Pleas with
certain powers and duties heretofore exer-
cised and performed by Commissioners and
Masters III Equity, was stricken out.
a message was received from the Govern
or, stating that he had approved the follow
ing Acts, viz: To make appropriations and
raise supplies for the year commencing in
October, 1865; to provide for an election to
fill certain vacancies in County offices; to
repeal an Act entitled can Act to prevent
persons holding certain Offices of emolu-
ment from leaving the State;" to amend an
Act entitled can Act to regulate the man
ner of drawing jurors" to amend IN Act
entitled can Act to define the jurisdiction
and regulate the practice of Probate
Courts" to repeal Section of an Act to
alter the Act entitled can Act to amend the
criminal law" to define the duties of State
Reporter, and to provide for the publica-
tion of the Supreme Court reports.
A resolution to rescind the action of the
House relative to removal of political disa-
bilties, was indefinitely postponed.
Bills to regulate the manner Of selling
lands at public sale; to enforce the provl-
sons of the fourteenth article of the Con-
stitution of the United States; to prevent
persons from holding Office who are disquali-
fled therefor by the fourteenth amendment
to the Constitution of the United States: to
authorize the employment of reporter to
take testimony in the Circuit Courts; to de-