The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-02-03
STATE LEGISLATURE.
WEDNESDAY,. FEBRUARY ,, 1870.
SENATE.


SENATE.
The Senate met at II a. nj. President
pro tenn. Montgomery in the Chair.
J. j. Wright, Senator from Beaufort
County, elected Associate Justice of the
Supreme Conrt.) rendered his resigna-
ton as Senator. which was accepted.
Notice was given OF Il bill to provide
for school for couvicts at the Peniten-
tiary.
Mr.. Gin introduced bill to provide
for the speedy examination of persons
arrested for an indicable offence; re-
ferred
The Committee on Engrossed Acts le-
ported as being duly and correctly en-
crossed, the following bills, which were
read the third time and ordered to be
sent to the House: TO incorporate the
Columbia Oil Company; 10 incorporate
the Delaney Rifle Company. of Charles
ton; to incorporate the Comet Fire En-
gine Company, of Orangeburg; to au
thorize the State Treasurer to re issue to
Richard 2. Buck, Il certificate Of State
stock lost OF destroyed: to amend IN Act
entitled IAN Act to incorporate the
Charleston Board of Tratir; to iucorpo-
rate the town of Chesterfield; to incor-
porate the Husrah Baptist Church: for
better protection OF migratory fish.
Prcscntmcnt of the grand jury Of
Marlboro County, was referred.
Unfuvorable report Of the Comni ittee
on Interpretations on Il bill to grant 70
certain persons therein named the cxclu-
sive right to dig and niue IN the beds of
the navigable streams and waters Of the
State of South Carolina for phosphate
rocks and phosphate deposits, was post
poned.
Bills to empower Circuit Judges to
change the venue for the trial of actions,
both civil and criminal. and (House) to
amend the law in relation to the license
and registration of pharmaceutists, and
apothecaries and druggists, and to regu-
late the vending Of drugs and poisons,
were laid on the table
Bills to incorporate the CoOpers' Trade
Union, of Charleston; to incorporate the
Unity and Friendship Society of Charles
ton; to incorporate the Walhalla Hook
and Ladder Company, OF Walballa; were
ordered to be cngrossed for Il third
reading.
Bill (House) to authorize the formation
of company for the construction of
turnpike road through or near Sassafras
Gap, and known as Sassafras Gap Turn
tee on Roads, Bridges and Ferries.
Bill to confer upon Jane Atkinson and
her children, the real and personal pro-
perty of the late John Atkinson. was re-
ferred to Committee on Public Lands.
Bill to alter and amend the charter and
extend the limits Of the city of Colum-
bia, was postponed, by vote of yeas IL;
nays 10. 1t was made the special order
for Thursday Eebruorv IN
Report of the Committee on the Judi
ciary on a bill to prevent persons from
issuing checks or scrip to be used as
money, was adopted.
At 3 O'Clock, adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The House met at IL m. Speaker
Moses in the Chair.
Notices of the following bills and joint
resolutions were given Bill to incorpo
rate the Santee National Guard; to au-
thorize the Clerks of the Courts of Com
mon Pleas to take testimony in certain
cases, and for other purposes; joint reso
luton to authorize County Commission
ers to audit and order the payment of
accounts of township officers, when, in
their judgment, such accounts should be
paid; to indemnify persons having pro-
perty lost or destroyed by mobs.
Leave of absence was granted to Messrs.
j. II. Jones, Burrel james and Samuel
Nuchles.
A message was received from the
Senate, requesting the return of a bill to
regulate the rights and powers of rail-
roads. A message was returned that the
bill was iu the hands OF the Railroad
Committee.
A concurrent resolution of the House,
asking the appointment of committee
to investigate the affairs OF the Blue
Ridge Railroad, was received and
adopted.
A bill to authorize the purchase of the
property and rights of the Columbia
Bridge Company, and to grant aid in the
construction of free bridge over the
Congaree River, was postponed until
Friday next, at 2 o'clock.
A joint resolution to go into an elec
ton, on Thursday next. for an Associate
Justice. was laid on the table.