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 10
exempt from taxation for fve years 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 Con,missi on
crs may issue licenses for ono hundred
dollars payable annually.
The following were read a second time {:
a bill to provide for paying coroner's
jurics, and joint resolution TO provide
medical aid to INDECENT sick in tho diff
fcrcnt Counties in tho State.
The bill to provide the mode for per.
pctuating testimony relative to Wills,
deeds, &C., destroyed during the war, was
read first time in the Senate.
The Joint COMMITTEES on Education
have reported a 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 and November 1869, Consisting
of $4,000 besides the capitation tax, y
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 one making o
false or fraudulent claim shall be fined q
sum not less than twice the sum of such
claims
The concurrent resolution for the
adjournment of the Legislature on Tues
day March lst, has been adopted.
The bill to designate, the officers by
whom sales ordered by Court of Common
Pleas aud Probate shall be made, was
passed and its title changed to an act.
DeLarge introduced bill to incorpor-
ate the Mayor aud Aldermen of Char
lesion as stock jObbiAg institution.
The Hon. Lemuel Booser, Judge Of
the Fifth Circuit died ut Camden on
Sunday morning, 23rd, after an illness
of five days. On MMdnday his Tsfsa;;asss
were, carried to Columbia, and 10 com.
pliment to bis 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, 18th inst. is represented
as fold day in tho Senate. The ques
tion was on the Charleston extensio,
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. Mack6,
was in the Gallery during the debate
but soon found it getting too hot for hin
: and left.
The bill was indefinitely postponed.
Corhin introduced a bill 70 limit th,
cost Of criminal prosecution, which pro
vides that the fees of only thg rec witnesse
shall be taxed by the State, unless thei
matariality shall 6rst be certified by th,
Solicitor, in the trial of cases befcr,
: Magistrates and Justices, and that n,
Magistrate shall receive fees for bindiui
over more than three witnesses in
criminal onso to appear before the Ses
sions Court unless their matepialihy i
certified to, as above
II Jamss intnodaaed q bill b. prsvsn
persons undss certain age. from. man
rying.
II A bin was introduced 10 prevent th,
} taking Of bail in murder cases.