The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-03-26

AN ACT CoNsRNTINa TO THE SALE OF GER
TAIN LANDS TO THE UNITED STATES, AND
CRDING JURISDICTION THEREOF.
Whereas, the Congress of the United
States Of America, at the third session
of the Fortieth Congress-, passed an Act
entitled "an Act making appropriations
for sundry civil expenses of the Go
vernment for the year ending June
thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy,
and for other purposes" which Act was
approved on the third day of March, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty nine; and tho said
Act, among other things, provided as
follows:
For purchase of building known as
"The Club House," at Charleston,
South Carolina, aud the fitting up
thereof for tho use of the United States
Courts. forty-six thousand dollars, or SO
much thereof as may be required, and
the Secretary of the Interior is hereby
authorized to make such purchase, and
tit up said building for the said purpose:
Prouidel, That the same can be done ut
an expense not larger than said forty-six
thousand dollars.
And whereas, by Joint resolution of
the Congress of the United States, ap-
proved September the eleventh, one
thousand hundred and forty-on enti-
tied Joint Resolution making it the
duty of the Attorney General to examine
into tho titles of lands and sites for the
purpose of erecting thereon armories
and other public works and buildings,
and for other purposes, it was resolved,
among other things, that no public
money should be expended upon any
site or land thereafter to be purchased
by the United States, for the purposes
aforesaid, until the written opinion of
the Attorney. General shall be had in
favor of the validity of the title, and
the State in which the land or site may
be, should be given to said purchase; :;
therefore,
SECTION 1. Be ii endcted 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 the con-
sent of the General Assembly of the
said State be, and is hereby, given to the
United States of America to purchase,
in fee simple. from the owner or owners
thereof, for court house and Offices
connected Herewith, for the use of the
! United States Courts, or for any other
purposes tc which the Government of
the United States may think proper TO
apply it, and to exercise authority and
jurisdiction over all that lot, piece or
parcel of land, with the buildings there.
on. known as "The Charleston Club
House. situate, lying and being on the
West side of Meeting street, in said city,
measuring and containing in front, on
Meeting street, fifty-eight feet, more or
less, by about two hundred and thirty
six feet in depth, more or less; bound
ing North on lands now or late Of VIM.
p. Greenland; to the East on Meeting
street; to the South on lands of M. 9.
Mordecai; and to the West on lands OF
the French Protestant Church: Provided,
That all process, civil or criminal. issued
under the authority Of this State, or any
officer thereof, shall and may be served
and executed on any part of the said
premises, and on any person or persons
there being and implicated in any matter
of law: And prooided, dlUdys. That the
said lot of land, and all the bnildipgt
and structures of every kind already
thereon erected, or that may hereafter
be erected thereon, shall bn absolutel,
and forever exempt from all taxes of the
County of Charleston, and the corpora
ton of the city of Charleston, and OF
the aforesaid State: Provided fu1he,
That all taxes heretofore laid or levied
upon the said land shall be lien there
on till paid.
CHAS. w. MONTGOMERY,
President pro tenn. of the Senate.
FRANKLIN j. MOSES,
Speaker House of Representatives,.
Approved"December %, 1869.
ROBERT X. SCOTT, Governor.
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE COLUMBIA
| OIL COMPANY.
SECTION 1. BE ii enccted by the Senate
and House Of Representatives of the
State of South Carolina, now met aud
sitting in General Assembly, and by the
authority of the same, That l.. p
Alexander, Johuson Hagood. John Brat.
ton, J. @. Haskell, Thomas l.. Gregg, +.
w. McMaster, w. K. Buchanan. Hardy
Solomons, and their associates and sue.
cessors, are hereby made and created 1,
body polite and corporate i'll law, under
the name and style of 1.-The Columbus
Oil Company" for the purpose of
extracting aud manufacturing oil from
cotton seed, and other seeds or grain,
and for the purpose of carrying on sncl,