The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-03-24
STATE LEGISLATURE.
E1GHTY-s1xTH DAYS PROCEEDINGS


SENATE.
MONDAY, March 22.-The Senate assem-
bled at IL A. M.
The House returned to the Senate, with
amendments, q bill to amend an Act enti-
tied San Act to fix the salary and regulate
the pay of certain officers, and to rechar-
ter the Central Railroad of South Carolina.
Bills to punish persons violating Section
g., Article XIV, of the amendments to the
Constitution of the United States; and fur
ther to amend an Act to define the jurisdic-
ton and regulate the practice of Probate
Courts, (from the Senate) received first
readings.
A resolution was adopted, that the bill
from the House of Representatives, entitled
"a bill to establish and maintain q system
OF public schools for the State of South
Carolina" which bill was adopted by the
House of Represent tatives as substitute for
the House and Senate bills bearing the
same title, be laid upon the table.
The Committee on Engrossed Bills re-
ported as duly and correctly engrossed, and
ready for third reading, the following:
A bill to aid the Port Royal Railroad Com
pany; joint resolution authorizing the State
Treasurer to apportion to the several Coun-
ties the appropriation of $685. 900 authorized
in General Orders No. 139, of December 3,
1857, Headquarters Second Military Dis
same to be paid over to the respective
County Trcasurers in order to pay claims of
teachers.
A bill to aid the Port Royal Railroad
Company was postponed to the next ses-
sion.
Message No. So from the Governor was
read as follows:
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
COLUMBIA, March %, 1869
IA f1o b1o 10 o. n
SENATOR'S: L respectfully return to your
honorable body, in which it originated,
An Act to provide for the uniform and
proper PRONUNCIATION of MI legal and public
notices" without my approval for the fol-
lowing reasons II '7'.
In the first place, deem it unnecessary,
as there has been no complaint or evidence
adduced that the system OF present existing
Is not amply sufficient and satisfactory for
its purposes.
In the second place, consider it iniudi-
oious in imposing upon a particular State
ottcer, in addition to his present Duties
which are sufficiently onerous, large
amount of.labor that legitimately belongs to
his colleagues in the several departments of
the State government, and to the local au-
thorities in their respective Counties. The
County officers, especially whose duty it is
to advertise the legal notices, may be sup
posed, from their local knowledge, to be
better advised of the standing and circula-
ton OF their neighborhood Journals than
persons at distance. To them the Consti-
tuition and laws have entrusted the direction
and supervision of County affairs and Coun-
ty expenditures, and until they are shown
to be incompetent or infaithful, deem it
the part Of wisdom and sound policy for the
State to interfere with them in the dis
charge OF their duties, or intermeddle with
strictly County matters, as little as is abso-
lutely necessary
In the third place, the designating of GER
taln newspapers as "official organs of the
State, and of the counties, consider highly
inexpedient and i'm proper. With but sin
gle exception. every secular newspaper in
the State is inimioal to the existing State
government. I am unwilling to endorse
their misapprehensions, or to increase their
power OF mischief, by comforting upon
them the name or character of Hofficial
organs" OF the State or Counties Necessity
compels their nse to give circulation to our
legal notices, which, of themselves, suffi
GENTLY indicate their official character. and
as the object of advertising is publicity. the
officers interested in the several localities
are the best judges of what newspapers will
most effectually accomplish their object and
satisfy the requirements of law.
For these reasons I feel constrained To
withhold my approval of this Act, and re.
spectfully return it to your honorable BODY.
have the honor to be, very respectfully.
r. X. SCOTT, Governor.
The message and accompanying Act were
considered Immediately.
The President announced the question