The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-04-27

law. And any person who shall be 1ndlcted
for any crime or offence other than those above
enumerated, shall have the right to peremptory
challenges of five, and the State, in such cases,
shall be entitled to peremptory challenges not
exceeding two.
SEC. SO. That an Act entitled can Act to
regulate the manner of drawing Juries," ap-
proved the 26th day of September, A. d. 1861
and the Act entitled can Act to amend an Act
entitled an Act to regulate the drawing of Ju-
ries," approved the 23d day of March, 1869,
and all other Acts, or parts of Acts, in any
way conflicting with the provisions OF this Act,
be, and the same is hereby repealed.
SEC. 40. That this Act shall take effect, and
have the full power Of law, from and after its
passage.
Approved March 10, 1871.
AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A NEW JUDICIAL AND
ELECTION COUNTY FROM PORTIONS OF THE
COUNTIES OF BARNwELL, EDGEFIELD, LEX
INGToN AND oRANGEBURG, TO BE KNOWN
AS AIKEN COUNTY.
SECTION 1. BE 1t enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in General As
sembly, and by the authority of the same, That
a new judicial and ele ction County, with its
seat of justice located at the town of Aiken,
which County shall be known as Aiken Coun-
ty, shall be formed, and is hereby authorized
Counties of Barnwell, Edgefeld, Lexington
and Orangeburg, with the metes and bounds
hereinafter described, to Eit: commencing at
the mouth of Fox's Greek, in Edgefeld Coun-
ty, where it empties into Savannah River,
thence in straight line to where the South
branch of Chinquepin Falls Creek Ia tributary
of the North Edisto Rver) intersects the Edge
field and Lexington line; thence down said
creeks to where it empties into the North fork
of the Edisto River, and down the said north
fork to where the dividing line between Lex
ington and Orangeburg Counties running
from Big Beaver Creek to the North fork of
the Edisto) touches said river; thence in a
straight line to the head of Tinker's Creek, in
Barnwell County; thence down said creek to
where it empties into the Upper Three Runs
and down said Runs Greek to where it empties
into the Savannah River; thence up the Sa-
yannah River to the initial point at the mouth
of Fox's Greek.
Sec 2. That Frank Arnim, NJ. F. Maloney,
P. R. Rivers, J. L. Jamison, E. Ferguson, J..
N. Hayne, E. J. G. Wood, P. r. Rockwell, j.
A. Greene, w. II. Reddish and B. Byas be- and
are hereby appointed Commissioners to run
out and properly mark and define the said
boundary lines, with the assistance of two
competent surveyors to be selected by them.
Sec g. That S. ]. Lee, Frank Arnim, P. r.
Rivers, C. d. Hayne. John Wooley, E. J.
Wood, j. N Hayne, Levi Chavis, w. a. Reed
ish and j. II. Cornish be, and are hereby, ap-
pointed Commissioners to provide suitable
buildings for the several Courts and County
officers, and to select and purchase or procure
sites for the usual public buildings, and to con-
tract for and superintend the erection of the
Court House and Jail thereon; and that said
public buildings shall be built at the expense
of the citizens of said County, and to meet the
said demands, a special tax on the assessed
value of real and personal property in said
County be levied
Sec f. That an election shall be held in the
County of Aiken, as established by this Act,
on the third Wednesday of October, A. D.
1872, for members of the General Assembly,
and for the regular County Officers provided
for by the Constitution and laws of the State,
and the officers SO elected shall, before enter.
ing upon the duties of their respective offices,
be required to give bond with .sureties, as now
is or may be required by law.
Sec s. That until the next apportionment
of Representatives, the representation Of the
several Counties of this State affected by this
Act, shall remain as now established
Sec 6. That the County of Aiken be, and
it is hereby, attached to the Third Congress
sional District, and shall form part and parcel
of the Sixth Judicial Circuit, and that the
regular terms of the Courts of General Ses-
sions and Common Pleas shall be held in the
town of Aiken, on the second Monday of jan
uary, May and September of each year, and
that the Justices of the Peace, Constables, in
the several Counties affected by this Act, who
shall be in Office at the time this Act goes into
effect, shall continue in office until their sue
ccssors shall have been elected and shall have
qualified: Proeided, ho,oeuer That the Justices
of the Peace and Constables now in Office
shall, from and after the time this Act goes
into effect, be confined and limited in their
official capacity, duty and power to the limits
of their respective Counties, as altered by this
Act, and the said officers residing in Aiken
County shall, i'll like manner, be restricted in
their official functions to said County of Aiken.
Sec T. That from and after the fourth day
of October A. d. 1872 all suits pending in the
Courts of Barnwell Edgefeld, Lexington and
Orangeburg, of which the defendants reside in
those portions of the said Counties now estab-
lished as the County of Aiken, and all indict-
ments now pending in the Courts of said Coun-
ties, where the offence was committed in those
parts of the said Counties, now established as
the County of Aiken, shall be transferred to
the dockets of the Courts of the said County
of Aiken, and all records, commissions, and
other papers belonging to any of the said suits ]
or indictments, together with all the legal in
cidents thereunto appertaining shall be trans
ferred to the Clerk of the Court of said Coun-
ty of Aiken, and all writs and other processes
already issued and made returnable to the Fall
term of the Courts of Barnwell, Edgefeld,
Lexington and Orangeburg, where the defen-
dants in the said cases reside in the parts Of
the said Counties now established as the Coun-
ty of Aiken, shall be as valid and efectual as
though they had been issued to the Fall term
of the Court of the said County of Aiken; and
the service of such processes by the Sheriff of
any of the said Counties shall be as good and
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