Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-02-17
Acts Of the Legislature.

An Act supplementary to an act entitled HAn
Aot to authorize administrators, executors
and other fduciaries to soil certain cyi-
dcnces of Indebtedness at public sale, and
to compromise in certain cases." approved
January IA, 1870.
Whereas, Prior to tho ninth day Of Sep
sember, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty. eight, many estates
were disposed of and the notes and accounts
represeptingthe purchase money of the same
were deemed to bo good at the time, have
since been rendered doubtful or worthless, by
operation of the act of the General Assembly
to determine and pcrpetuate the homestead,
and by other causes therefore,
SECTION |. Be :. enacted by the Senate
and House Of Reple entatives of the State
of'South Carolina, now met and sitting in
General Assembly, and by the authority Of
the same:
That all administrators, executors and 9TH
or tiduciaries, having in their possession, as
suoh, notes, accounts and other evidences Of
Indebtedness, heretofore appraised good, but
which have since become doubtful or worth
less, by operation of the act of the General
Assembly to determine aud perpetuate the
homestead, shall be allowed to dispose of the
same in the manner prescribed in sections l
and 2 OF the act to which this is supple.
mcnt.
SEC. 2. That where administrators, exccu.
tors, and other fiduciaries, sold property, as
such, prior to the passage of the act to do.
tcrmine and perpetuate the homestead by the
General Assembly, on the ninth day of Sep
tember, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hondred and sixtyerght, and took notes
or other evidences of indebtedness for the
purchse money, which were regarded good at
the time they were taken, but which have
since been rendered doubtful or worthless, by
operation of tho homestead act aforesaid, said
administrators, executors, and other fducia-
ries, shall be allowed to dispose of the same
in tho manner prescribed in sections and 2
OF tho act to whioi this bill is supp,ement. 1
Approved the 23d day of JAN, A. d. 1871.
Joint resolution authorizing the County Com
missiouers of Oconee County to levy spe-
cial tax.
BE 1t Rcsolvea by the Senate and House
Of Representatives. ofMc State of .Sou0.
Carolina, mo~ met and sitting IN General
Assembly, and by tie authority Of the same,
That in addition to the Tx heretofore author
lied to be levied, the County Commissioners
OF Oconee County are hereby authorized to
to levy and cause to be collected special tax
OF one mill Oh dollar, the same to be used
exclusively to paying the indebtedness of the
county.
Approved 23d January, 1871
An act to re. charter the Pumpkintown Turn
pike Road, in Pckens Cou, ty.
SECTION l. BE itenocteel by the Senate and
House of Representatives, Of the STATE OF
So"th Carolina, noo anet and sitting IN Cen
ercI Assembly, and by the authority of Tho.
same, That the Turnpike Road leading from
pumpkintown to Table Rock. in PiokeL.
County, be, and tho same is hereby re.char-
tered, in the name of Marcus d. Keith, for
the term of fourteen years, with the same
rates Of toll as those heretofore allowed by \
law.
SEC. 2. That Gil persons going to aud io. !;
turning from elections, churches and mills.
shall be allowed to pass over the road free OF
toll.
Approved January 2Sd, 1871.
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The Litchfield co., Sentinel thus. photo.$
graphs ono of the institutions Of that town .t
"There is q man in this town who sets him. y
self up as the censor Of public morale, ana
who publishes and condemns the shortcouinpS.
of his fellow men. lie is as sanctimonio,Ia
as if he had swallowed conference meeting.
Five hundred Of the old, genuine, original
hard shell Pherisees, boiled down to q haIS
pint would make weak decootion when cona 8,
pared to this individual. He Isl Cd imnrepsS
mated with the odor ofsanctity that olle cSuld: J
scrape it off his clothes with d olan1 4 sh4l 81
Yet the man is the most inyetsrato ioafer Il,
tho whole town--an inquisisiye, prying mad
dlesone, impudent nuisance Ian { intolafss
able gossip and busy body. sIfs he, sees Ssa,sl
or more gentlemen talking together, hs
up and lstons to their conversation /. Hsl ll,sz
the check Of q cast.irou Indian. Ife Is sssI
pable of interruptipg the honediction M
wedding to ask the briflecnnnt M =, !. i. ~