The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1870-01-29
Doings in Columbia.

The following bills have been intro.
duced and read first time A bill to
exempt from taxation for Ave ycars all
manufactori of cotton and woollcn
fabrics; bill to require foreign insu-
rance agencies to pay license for solic.
iting or taking insurance in this State
it provides that the County Commission
crs may issue licenses for ono hundred
dollars payable annually.
The following were read second time !:
a bill to provide for paying coroner's
jurics, and joint resolution to provide
medical aid to INDECENT sick in the diff
fcrcnt Counties in tho State.
The bill to provide the mode for per,
petuating testimony relative to wills,
deeds, &c, destroyed during the war, was
read first time in the Senate.
The Joint Committee on Education
have reported bill which received its
first reading, which provides that the
State Treasurer pay out of the funds
appropriated for the support of free
schools, for the year between November
1868 aud November 1869, Consisting
of $4,000 besides the capitasion tax, }
the claims of teachers for services rendered
during the said year, at the rate FIVE
cents per day for each scholars actual
attendance; and that any ono making o
false or fraudulent claim shall be fined
sum not less than twice the sum of such
claims.
The concurrent resolution for the
adjournment of the Legislature on Tues
day March 1st, has been adopted.
The bill to designate, the officers by
whom sales ordered by Court of Common
Pleas rud Probate shall be made was
passed and its title changed to an act.
DeLurgs introduced bill to incorpor-
ate the Mayor aud Aldermen of Char
lesion as stock jObbing institution.
The Hon. Lemuel Boozer, Judge of
the Fifth Circuit died Mt Camden on
Sunday morning, 23rd, after an illness
of FIVE days. On Monday his remains
were, carried to Columbia, and in CON-
plimeDt to his memory, both houses,
after adopting resolutions, Tributes
respect, adjourned, and went in body
to the depot to meet his remains.
The body was carried to Lexington,
the birth place of the deceased, where
the funeral took place on Tuesday.
Judge Boozer was in the Sixty-third
year of his age. He was the first South
Carolina of any prominence who, joined
the radical party. Requieseat in pace.
Wednesday, 10Th inst. is represented
as Geld day in the Senate. The cues
tion was on the Charleston extension
bill, and in the debate, the City Coun
Gil and especially, the Mackeys received
some hard licks from Corbin Wimbush
Nash and others. Old A. G. Macke,
was in the Gallery during the debate
but soon found it getting too hot for hin
: and left.
The bill was indefinitely postponed.
Corbin introduced bill to limit tn,
cost of criminal prosecution, which pro
vides that the fees of only three witnesses
shall be taxed by the State, unless thei
materiality shall FIRST be certified by tn,
Solicitor, in the trial of cases befcr,
: Magistrates and Justices, and that M
Magistrate shall receive fees for bindint
over more than three witnesses in ,
criminal oase' to appear befoRe the Ses
sions Court unless thhsiF materialhy i
certified to, rs above
Il James iafsossaissAa 8 Iii lii 20 preven
persons under q certain, age. from man
rying.
u A bill was introduced to prevent tn,
, taking Of bail in murder cases