The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-02-10
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WEDNESDAY. FaBauA4x 8, 1870.
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The Ssnaty met as l1sa. M. /:
The Comnittee on Finance, 60 WHOM
had been referred q bili to amend an Act
entitled "An ACT to fix the salariss and
regulate tho pay OF certain officers, Zee
ported al substitute. The petition Of
Richard Dozier, relative TO certain State
stocks belonging to the late John Exum,
which were lost or mislaid, recommend
that said stocks be re-issued to Alven
Robinson, j. F. Blasklork and E. B.
Coeshman. Laid over. ...L..t
The Committee on Engrossed Bills re-
ported the following as being dnly and
correctly engrossed: To incorporate the
Unity and Friendship Society of Charles
ton, and to confer certain powers; to es-
tablish the weight of barrel of crude
turpentine; to empower Circuit Judges
to change the venue for the trial of ac-
tions, civil and criminal; to incorporate
the Walhalla Hook and Ladder Compa-
ny; to secure equal civil rights and to
provide for the enjoyment Of all rene
dies in law by all persons, regardless of
race or colcr. A joint resolution to au-
thorize the State Commissioners to sell
certain wooden buildings ut the State
works, near Greenville; bills to restore
to the family of Isaac Haithcock certain
escheated property; to amend the char
ter of the Graniteville Company; to in
corporate the Sumter Manufacturing
Company. Ordered to third reading.
The Speaker of the House attended
in the Senate, when the following Acts
and Joint Resolutions were ratified:
Acts to regulate the rights and powers
of railroad companies; to incorporate
tho Columbia Oil Company; for the
better protection of migratory fish; to
provide for the appointment Of certain
officers therein named; to incorporate
the Delaney Rifle Guard Of Charleston.
A joint resolution to reissue to VIM.
Dougherty, his agent or assigns, certain
State stocks lost or destroyed.
Mr.. Hoyt introduced bill to vest in
the Clerks Of the Courts of Common
Pleas all the rights, powers and duties
conferred upon the late Commissioners
in Equity, in regard to derelict estates.
The Committee on Railroads submit
ted bill to provide remedy against
charges for transportation, conveyance.
or toll in excess of the limits prescribed
by law, and to declare the construction
thereof; which was ordered to lie over
under the rules.
Bills to incorporate home for invalid
clergymcn; to incorporate the Black
Creek Cemetery Company; to incorpo-
rate, as a public highway, the road
known AS the Cox Bridge road, were
read and ordered to be engrossed.
At 2 o'clock. adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE
The House met at IL M. Speaker
Moses in the Chair.
Mr.. Tomlinson introduced q bill to au-
thorize a certificate of discharge of the
State from its liability, by reason of the
guaranty of certain bonds on the can
collation. of this same.
Mr.. G. ID. Hnyne introduced bill to
provide for home for invalid clergy
men ut Aiken
Senate bills to authorize the County
Com mmissioners of Colleton and Spartan
burg to levy M additional tax to pay the
indebtedness of their respective counties,
and the County Commissioners of Oar
lington to levy special tax for the con-
struction of court house, was ordered
to be engrossed.
A bill to re-charter the Cypress Cause
way, was ordered to be engrossed.
A joint resolution authorizing the
Governor to appoint contract agents for
labor in each County of the State, occupi-
ed the attention of the House up to the
hour of adjournment.
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