The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-02-27

L sIATE l.EeIsLATpaE. 4
SATURDAY, FEBRU1AY 28, 1870.
SENATE 8,
Mr.. Rose introduced bill, from the
Gc.ssits - Inar - ii,StE. as
poraSe Vie town OF YorGsiiie. I
~ M. Creed offered 1s8alu utions which
was Adopted that the Gcfamit ittse for Is.
6urilg propbSals for finiSiiing The State
|Cap8Eol, hasfastg1cted ito cont tinna tlie
time for receiving said proptsaiaf for az
teen days from March ]. rs rs Z $50 g.
A resolution 10y Gain@ TO rescind the.
resolution to adjourn, after much diact1s.
sion, vas lost, by q vote Of IA to TO-
The Governor informed the Senate
THAI he. had approved the Acts: /:
10 determine the time when the salaries
of County School Commissioners shall
commence, and to fix the date of the first
meeting of the State Board of Educa.
ton; to provide for payment of claims
of teachers for services rendered during
fiscal yenr, commencing November, 1868.
The following bills were read the third
time and passed: to encourage cotton
and woolen manufactures in this State;
to enforce uniform system of assess
ment and taxation by municipal bodies;
to provide for construction and keeping
in repair the public highways and roads;
relative to the power of the City Council
of Charleston to impose punishment for
violation OF city ordinances; joint reso-
luton, with amendments, to authorize
the committee Of investigation for the
Third Congressional District to make
similar investigation for the Fourth Con-
gressional District.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
The enacting clause of the bill rela-
tive to stopping Kinsler's ferry was
stricken out and adopted.
The following bills were passed. To
provide for the appointment of Trial
Justices; to authorize and require the
Probate Judges of the State to take
charge of certain bonds and records in
the Offices of the late Commissioners in
Equity; to regulate the taking OF bail
in criminal cases; to authorize the At
torney- y-General to institute proceedings
against the South Carolina Railroad
Company, for violation of its charter;
Joint resolution authorizing the State
treasurer to reissue to Alexander
Robertson, j. F. Blackjack and E. P.
Coachnan, or their assignees, agents, or
attorneys, certain certificate of stock; !;
TO amend the charter of the Columbia
Bridge Company; to extend the limits
of the town of Camden; to incorporate
the t3onng Mems Brotherly Association;
to incorporate the Lincoln Republican
Guards, of Charleston, and the Beaufort
Horse Guards, of Beaufort; to incorpo.
rate the Rock Hill Hook and Ladder
Company; to incorporate home for
invalid clergymen; to limit the costs of
criminal prosecutions; to amend an Act
entitled ''an ACT to establish State
Orphan Asylum
A. bill to charter the Enterprise Rail
road was laid over.
The enacting clause of bill authoriz-
ing and requiring the County Commits
sloners OF Sumter County to cause forth
with to be assessed and collected from
the taxable inhabitants of said Sumter
County, sum of money hereinafter to
be set forth to indemnify David G. Ro-
bertson and the firm of Dubose a. Co.,
for certain abuses and losses, after very
exciting debate, participated in by Whip
per, Burrell James, Ransier and Chest.
nut, was stricken out.
The account of W. W. Eutler, for
school teaching, was ordered to be paid.
The following paper was presented,
and requested to be entered in the Jour
nall
We vote "no" on the final passage OF
bill to provide for sinking fund, not
because we are opposed to o sinking
fund, but because, from the determined
opposition of those who are to have the
management of the same to making the
sales of property public, we are lead to
suspect a rat in The meal tub. Claude c..
Turner, Javan Bryant, r. NJ. Smith, J..
b. Moore.