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 20
exempt from taxation for Eve gears all
manufactori 8 of cotton and wooflcn
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
ers may issue licenses for one hundred
dollars payable annually.
The following were read second time :
A bill to provide for paying coroner's
juries, and joint resolution to provide
medical aid to INDECENT sick in the diff.
ferent Counties in tho State. se'' =
Tho bill to provide the mode for per.
pctuating testimony relative to Wills,
deeds, &c., destroyed during the war, wan
read first time in the Senate.
The Joint Committee on Education
have reported bill which received its
irst 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 cspitation tax, )
the claims Of teachers for services rendered
during the said year, at the rate Eve
cents per dny for each scholars actual
attendance; and that any ono making o
false or fraudulent claim shall be fined q
sum not less than twice the sun, Of such
claims. eG T. ST.
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 aud Probate shall be made, was
passed and its title changed to an act.
DeLargs introduced bill to incorpor-
ate the Mayor and Aldermen of Char
lesion as a stock jObhiAg institution.
The Hon. Lemuel Booser, Judge of
the Fifth Circuit died at Camden on
Sunday morning, 23rd, after an illness
of FIVE days. On Monday his remains
were, carried to Columbia, and in com.
pliment to his memory, both houses,
after adopting resolutions, Tributes
res nect, 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 field day in tho Senate. The ques
ton was oa sba Cbssiea.eh eztaas:o,
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 intToa;aissa bill! &C i:::: :.::. Il Il.
cost Of criminal prosecution, which pro
vides that the fees of only three wisnesse
shall be taxed by the State, unless thei
materiality shall fret be certified by tn
Solicitor, in the trial Of oascs befcr
Magistrates and Justices, and that n,
Magistrate shall receive fees for bindin,
over more than three witnesses in
criminal case TO appear befsze the ses
sions Court unless thsis matepiaEAy
certified tol as above
u Janss inknodaned q bill 10. prsven
persona undsn a eentais age. from. mag
! rring
i A bill was introduced to prevent tn,
taking taking ef bail in murdet cabeJ.