Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-05-26

uCUcTdl.
3. The duties of the Commissioner of IT, !,
Bureau of Agricultural Statistics, may be
transferred to the Secretary of State without
| ad ditonnl compensation.
4. The place of Assistant Adiutant Gene.
raj can be dispensed with, and the Gutic,
performed 10y the Adjutant General.
Assistant Iibrarnn of the Supreme
Court may be dispensed with.
ELEoTIIE CFrIcERs.
1st. The compensation Of School Commis.
sloncr may be reduced in all the counties, to
an equivalent for their services
End. The compensation of County Com.
mlssloners should be reduced, the number of
days for duty fixed by law, and the per diem
allowed only for days actually on duty their
accountability for money received for lccn
Se', &c, should be regulated by law, reqnir-
ing thcm to report to competent authority the
amount received, as heretofore such moneys
hand not been accounted for in many coun.
ties
The fees of Trial justices, Solicitors and
ConstaDlcs might be proper matters for legis.
lation.
The Adjutaut Gcnarals salary should be
reduced to commensurate amount with his
services.
La addition to the cases above particular
ized, your committee are of opinion that $40
per diem, during the sitting Of the Senate, is
ample compensation to the Lieutenant Gov.
crnor, while that officer receives the further
sa'ary of $1,000 per annun.
In conclusion, your committee would say
generally, that they are of opinion that the
rate OF compensation nov paid to the various
State and county officers might be very ma
teria'!y reduce 1, with great advantage to the
people OF the State, and without dcLri.pcnt to
the public service
MIR Cannon submitted the following, which
was agreed to-
The Committee of Eleven, to whom WAS
referred preamble and sundry resolutions, as
TO the best mode OF restoring confidence in
and reforming the Government by conferring
with MS ixcellency, and the appoint nont of
committees OF examinations &c, report that
Tie subject matSer emDraccd therein having
been fully considered and set forth in a re.
port made by this Committee, they ask to be
discharged from the further consideration OF
the same.
Also, the following:
The sub committee, to whom was referred
resolution to report on the proprcty of pro-
posing some plan through the Governor or
otherwise, by which the laws requiring all
official notices to be published in certain pa
pers he repe"'ed, or so modified as to remove
said rc4uisitiun; beg leave to report that thew
have considered the same. We fully concur
in the impropricty and injustice Of the above
law, and recommend the passage Of some law,
by which said grievance may be removed.
Mr. Butler made the following report
which was adopted
The Committee Of Eleven, to whom was
referred tic resolution that committee of
live be raised to examine and report upon the
accounts of the State with the Financial
Agent of the State at New York, aud that
thcy apply to the Governor for his aid aaa
authority to make this examination beg leave
respectfully to .cport that, nasmuch as the
same mattcr is provided for in the report of
sub committee of this committee, thcy ask
to be discharged from the further considera
ton of the same.
Mr. Jones, from the Committee of Eleven.
to whom was referred the resolution regard
ing the recalling Of bonds issued under the
act of Goth August, 1868, reported as fol
lows:
The committee to whom this resolution
was referred have considered the same, and
recommend it's adoption. Agreed to-
Mr.. Marley introduced the following,
which was adopted:
Reso1oca, That this Convention express its
unqualified disapproval of all secret political
associations, by whatever name they may be
called; aud entreat all good citizens, irrcspcc.
tive of party, to discountcnance any and all
such organizations.
Mr.. Baldwin introduced tho following
which was adopted
WHEREAS, BY at act of the General As.
sembly passed ut the regular session Of 1868
to 1859, the State waived and postponed an
existing lien Of the State to secure Grmer
endorsement of the bonds of the Charleston
and Savannah railroad company to execute
new mortgage for its own benefit the, cforc
Resolved, That it be referred to Mess,s
Pressly, Lord and Inglesby, ex.Attorncys at
Law, to examine tho said act, and to take
such measures for tho protection of tho in
tcrcsts of tho State in the said Savannah and
Charleston Rnilrond company us they may
deem practicable and wise
The chairman, Hon w. d. Porter, stated
that as slcssrs. Porter and Counor, to whom
was referred the matter of the Blue Ridge
and other railroad matters. for opinion and
report, had therefore expressed legal opin
ion upon the samo subject, he begged to
withdraw. Tho same was agreed to and
Messrs. Lord, Prcssly and IngIesby wore
with hlr. Chesnnt substituted for tho origin.
al selection of Mcssrs. Porter and Cannon.
n T..