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OFFICIAL.

OFFICIAL.
AN ACT to Incorporate Healing
Sprfpqs Baptist CAorch, IN BainDelt
CouDty, South Carolina:
SECT1oN l. Be it enacted by the Sen.
ate and House of Representative Of the
state of South Carolina, now met and
sitting in General Assembly, and by
the authority of the same:
That the members of the said Society
be, and they are hereby. incorporated,
and are hereby declared to be body
corporate, by the name and style Oh the
Healing Springs Baptist Churcn, anu anu
BY that name nan and style OF the tieating ~ tha5
Springs Baptist Church, ana oy .las ~
name and style shall have SUCCESSION ol
officers and members, and shall have a
common seal.
SEC, &. That the said corporation shall
have tower to purchase, receive ana
hold any oesl or personal estate not eN-
rnhdine in value the sum of twenty
thousand dollars, and to sell, convey,
and dispose of the same and by its
corporate name, to sue and be sued in
anv Court of this State, and to make
such rules and bylaws, not repugnant
to law, as it may consider necessary and
expedient.
bsEC. 8. That lhis Act shall be deem
ed and taken to be q public Act, and
shall continue in force for the term of
twenty-five years;
Approved March Q, 1871.
AN ACT to Require the County Com
n1issiO1ers to Report to the General as
sepbLY.
| Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives Of the State of south
Carolina, now met and sitting in Gener..
al Assembly, and by the authority OF
the same:
That the County Commissioners Of
each County shall, on, or before the NJ
teeuth of December, in each year, re-
port to the General Assembly all ac-
counts chargeable to their respective
Counties; what have been allowed and
settled the number and amount of Or
ders drawn upon the County Treasurer;
the taxes levied and collected; the
amount expended for rebuilding or re-
pairing Court House, Jail. Poor House
and bridges; in fact, q detailed account
of all their doipgs, as required by an
Act entitled "An Act to define the ju-
risdiction aud duties of County Gem
missioners,' approved September 26,
1868. And upon failure SO to report,
they shall be fined in SUM not less
than fifty, nor more. than two hundred
dollars.
s.. Approved March 7, 1871.
AN ACT to Incorporate the Working-
mems Mutual Benefit Life assurance
Association, Of South CaroH'a.
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the Sem
ate 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 Edward Mickey, Samuel ].
Keith, A. j. Ransisr. Isaac H. White,
w. H. J. Brodie, H. r. Humbert, Ste
phen Gary, Samuel B. Thompson, \. +.
Edwards, Thomas D. Mcdowell, W. J.
McKinlay, P. r. Rivers, F. H. Frost,
w, E. Johnston, VIM. Hayne, and their
associates and successors, gre hereby
made and created body politio and cor
porate, under the name and style of the
surance Association of South Carolina.
SEC. q. That the said corporation
hereby created and established shall
have succession of officers and members
according to its bylaws, and shall have
power to make such bylaws, not repug-
nant to the laws of the land, and to have
use and keep common seal, and the
same to alter at will, to sue and be sued,
plead and be implicated in, any Court in
this State, and to have and enjoy all
such property, real and personal, as
may be given, bequeathcd or devised to
it, or may be in any manner whatsoever
acquired by the said corporation: Pro-
1idcd, The amount so held shall not ex-
ceed the sum of twenty-five thousand
(e5, ,00O) dollars.
SEC. g.. That the said corporation may
from time to time, invest their funds,
moneys, assets and all other property,
stocks, public or private, notes, bills,
bonds, with oa without security, by
mortgage of real or personal property,
or by surety, in such sums and on such /
terms and conditions as they may neem
proper; and it shall be lawful for the
said corporation, from time to time, and
at al times, to sell, convey, mortgage,
assign or transfer all of its property,
real and personal, as and when it may
be deemed proper and expedient, and to
make and execute bonds under their
corporate seal, with or without mort
gage, for the purchase Of real or person.
81 property.
SEC. 4. That this Act shall continue
In force for the space of twenty years,
and that that the same shall be taken
and deemed public Act, and may be
given in evidence without being special
ly pleaded.
Approved March 7, 1871, .... /