Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-04-16
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Acts Passed by the State Legislature.

AN G TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED GAN
ACT TO DEFINE TIL JURISDICTION n
DUTIES OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS"
Section. l. Be enacted by the Senate
and Aouseof Representatives Of Me State Of
South Carolina, moo met and sitting IN Gen.
ernl assembly, and by authority Of the same,
That an ACT entitled can Act to define ju-
jurisdiction and duties of County Commission
ers," passed the 26th day Of September, A..
D. 1868, DO amended as follows: "Provi-
ded, That compensation shall not be allowed
to any member of the Board Of County Com
missioners for exceeding one hundred days in
one year, except to the members Of Board of
County Commissioners for the County of
Charleston, who shall not be allowed compcn.
sation for exceeding one hundred and fifty
days 10 any one year. Compensation for
double this number of days may be allowed to
County Commissioners during tho first term
Of Office, ending the third Monday in April
A. D. 1870, but in all cases during said pc.
riod, as we'll rs thereafter, under the limita.
lions, aud in tho manner following, to wit
An account shall be made out in items, with
dates p%refxed, accompanied with an affidavit
Of the number, stating that the items Of suoh
account arc correct and just, and that the SER
vices therein mentioned have been rendered
as stated, and no part Of said account has
been paid. The accounts shall be presented
to the County Treasurer, who shall audit, aud
II correct, pay tho same out,of funds acoru.
Jog from taxes laid aud collected for County
purposes.
SEQ. 2. That Section 81 of said ACT shall
be amended by the addition Of the following
at the end Of Section: The County shall also
pay.
1. The fees Of grand and petit jurors while
In attendance upon the Circuit Court.
2. Witness fees 10 State cases, at the rate
Of one dollar per day for actual attendance on
tho Circuit Court, aud sevonty.6ve cents per
day for actual attendance on a Magistrate or
Justice Of the Peace Court, aud five cents per
milo for actual and necessary travel.
8. Fees Of physicians and surgeons testify.
ing a. experts before a Coroner's jury, or a.
the Circuit Court, after a post nso,:em exam.
%iuation, ten dollars, and five cents per mile
for actual and necessary travel.
4. For dieting and keeping persons con.
fined In the County Jail, at The rate Of fifty,
cents per day. ! w,
Is. Fees Of the Circuit Solicitors for servi..
ces in the County, when not collected from,
the defendant, ut the following rates : Ia q
trial before q jury IN civil and criminal cases,
or before referees, a docket fee Of ten dollars;
an Gases At law, where judgment 10 rendered
saithoat a jury, seven dollars and fcty cents
.&said fscst to be In lieu Of oil other compen.'
sation whatever.
S6. Fees Of the Clerks of the Circuit Courts
Id State cases, at the rate now allowed by.
law. m ,3g Il ii :
70. Fees Of the County Coroners, Al the
cate now allowed by law. Before the ACCOUNTS
OF Sherias, Circuit Solicitors or Clerks shall
be presented sothe County Treasurer for pay.
msnt they shall be sworn, IA, by said officers,
examined and Sertifeds sosby ihs Jadkesprss.
siding IL the Circuit Court iu tho County.
approved and ordered 70 DO paid BY the C6di.
IL Comnsiasiopsrs, .sSt & naS,sE,t ~
SEQ. .8assctiou shirtyts,ur q ssie AIT shall
DO, ard 1.-The came 10 hereby, amended, 80 asto
reaass Soilows':' The County Commissioners
sball sasssscsslst q, taaxss for County purposes aps
on the thea last State valuation, and for this
pusposs5 shail, 'sngor bssss the fret day fof
January in each year, Tobtain' from the Audi.
tor5of the County, (whois hereby authorised