The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-02-08
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pro t6H1. 4onsgo&4efy IN me ChRiH n
There teing bue Ave naemberS psesebt.
Gt vs. sauouaced u the sereans.a.-
Arms that there we're but tweIve Senators
in the city. Mr.. Arnim moved that the
Senate adjourn sine die, but the motion
was not entertained. '|S7' -
T HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The House met at IL m. Speaker
Moses in the CHAIR.
Mr.. McKinlay introduced bill to
repeal certain ordinances of the City
Council OF Charleston conflicting with
the Acts Of the Legislature relative to the
erection OF wooden buildings in the city
of Charleston.
Mr.. Brodie introduced bill to amend
an Act entitled 'ean Act establishing
State orphan asylum"
Mr.. McKinlay introduced bill grant
ing authority to the City Council of
Charleston to amend an ordinance enti-
tied ''an ordinance to aid in rebuilding
the burnt district and waste places in the
city Of Charleston"
The claim of w. G. Pinckney, for
school teaching, was referred.
David Harris obtained leave of alb
sence.
Samuel B. Thompson gave notice of
bill to incorporate the Citizens Passen-
ger Railroad Company. in Columbia.
A bill to regulate the fees of Probate
Judges, Clerks of Court, Trial Justices,
Justices of the Peace, and other officers
therein mentioned, was laid over.
A bill for the better protection of
laborers and others under contract for
service. was under discussion up to half
past 8 o'clock, when the House ad-
journed.
Acts Passed by the Legislature of South
Carolina.
AN ACT TO ESTABLISH COMPANY UNDER
THE NAME OF THE MOUNT PLEASANT AND
sULLIvAN's ISLAND FERRY COMPANY.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives. of the
State of South Carolina, now met and
sitting in General Assembly, and by the
authority Of the same, That upon COM
pliance with the second section Of this
Act, Henry Z. p. Mccormick, and such
other persons as may become members
thereof be, and they are hereby, declared
body polite and corporate, by the
name of the Mount Pleasant and Sulli-
vans Island Ferry Company, for tho pur-
pose of keeping up ferry and convey
ing passengers and transferring goods,
wares and merchandise by steamboats,
between the city of Charleston and the
town Of Mount Pleasant, and Sullivan's
Island, and of conveying passengers,
goods, wares and merchandise between
the said city and any other place or places.
Sec. 2. That the said Henry l.. p. Nc
Cormick, in order to entitlc himself to
the benefits of this incorporation, shall
make out q fair schedule of all the pro-
Nv nd 1ra
used by him as proprietor of the Mount
Pleasant and Sullivan's Island Ferries,
from the city of Charleston, accurately
describing the same, and shall record the
same in the Office of the Register of
Mesne Conveyance for Charleston Conn-
| ty, and in the Office of the Secretary Of
State, on or before the first day of April
next; and from the day when the said
schedule shall be recorded in the said Of
fees, the said property, real and personal,
SO at scribcd, shall be vested in the said
Mount Pleasant and Sullivan's Island
Ferry Company, and the said Henry l..
2. Mccormick shall be and become the
sole owner of the capital stock of the
said Company, which said capital stock
shall be equal to the full clear value of
the property as stated in the said sche-
dule, and shall be divided into shares of
one hundred dollars each, each of which
shares shall be estimated ut one hundred
dollars par value as to all liabilities to
which the members of the said Company
may become individually answerable by
the provisions of the third Section of
this Act: Andpronided, That the amount
Of said capital stock may be increased by
the addition of property to the said sche-
dule at any time to an amount not ex-
ceeding eighty thousand dollars.
SEC. 3. Every shareholder of the said
Company shall be individually liable for
all debts contracted during the time he
or she shall be shareholder in the said
Company to the extent of the par value
Of his or her shares in the same.
SEC. 4. That in all elections, and in all
meetings of the corporation, each share
holder shall be entitled to as many votes
as he or she shall hold shares, one vote
for every share, and shareholders absent
from any meeting or election shall be
entitled to vote by proxy.
SEC. 5. That the said Company shall
have such number of officers aS shall be