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by the South Carolina Institute for tn
promotion OF Art, Mechanical In
genuity and Industry, to William Lava
Treasurer of the Lower Division of tn
State OF South Carolina, to secure. tn
said appropriation: ProUidcd, h0,Dever
That the City Council of Charleston
shall also release its. claim against tn
South Carolina Institute for the promo
ton of Art, Mechanical Ingenuity ant
Industry: Provided, further, That tht
said lot be snld at public auction, aftel
ten days. notice, published in the daily
papers of Charleston, and the proceed:
thereof appropriated to the payment q
the cost of the new hall recently erected
on the Washington Race Course by the
said South Carolina Institute Provided
further, That the State of South Caro-
lima shall have the same lien and claim
to the extent Of money realized from
the said sale, upon the said new hal
erected US aforesaid, that has heretofore
existed upon the said lot of land:
Approved March 7, l87I.: 81. t.
! AN ACT to Incorporate the Brc1Oc'
Gold Mining Company, Of South Ctt''
oii71d. -..
SEcrioN l. Be it enacted by the Sen.
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 Thomas S. Cavender, Charles J.
Andell and Joshua ClendenCn, and such
persons as now are, or hereafter may be,
associated with them, their successors
and assigns, be, and they are hereby,
constituted body corporate and polite,
by the name and style of the Brewer
Gold Mining Company, by which name
and style they. are hereby made capable
in law to have, hold, purchase, receive.
work, sell, mortgage, lease, enjoy and
retain to then1,. their successors and as
signs, lands, tencments, 1niles of all
characters, and chattcls of whatsoever
kind, theS may deem conducive to the
object and interest of the said corpole-
tion, which are mining and working for
gold and other minerals, and manufac-
turing the same, ia Chesterfield County,
and either parts of South Carolina, and
of sending the same to market.
SEC. 2. That the said corporation, by
their name and style aforesaid, may sue
and be sued, plead and be implicated, in
any Court of this State, make and use q
common seal, and alter and change the
same at their pleasure, and make and
establish such bylaws and regulations,
and such alterations. and amendments
thereof, not In conflict with the Consti-
tuition or laws of this State, or Of the
United States, as they shall deem
proper.
Sic. 3. That the capital stock of the
said corporation shall be twenty thou
sand dollars, with the right to increase
the same by the vote of a majority of
the Directors, to any sum not exceeding
one million dollars that tile said corpo-
ration shall commence business within
sixty days after its capital stock shall
have been subscribed, and the stock
may be paid either in money, real estate
mining leases, machinery, or any other
kind of property, the same to he divided.
into such number Of shares az the said
corporation may determine, and the
shares to be assignable and negotiable
under such rules as the said corporation
may prescribe.
: Sic. 4. That there shall be annual
meetings of the Stockholders, at such
time and place, as they may designate,
for the purpose Of choosing q Board Of
Directors, to consist Of not less than
three nor more than nine, each of
whom shall be stockholdcr, and q
President and other officers of the said
corporation, who may he members of. the
said Board of Directors, to manage their
affairs. ...
Sec. S. That the said corporation shall
keep an office at their principal mine in
Chesterfield County, which, for all judi
cial purposes, shall be deemed their
lacation; and also one in Philadelphia.
or New York, if they choose and all
meetings of the Stockholders and Direc-
tors may be held at such places, in or
out of the Stnte, as may be directed by.
the bylaws of the said corporation.
SEC. 6. That the said corporation shall
have all the rights and privileges grant.
ed by law to other Gold Mining Compa-
nies in this State, and all the psoperty
real and personal, of the said corpora
ton, shall be liable for their debts, and
the private property of the Stock holders
shall he liable for the debts Of the said
corporation to the, amount of stock sub
scribed by them respectively, and not
actually paid in money or. in property,
at the time Of the commencement OF the
suit against them. "
SEC. 7. That the said corporation shall
haev Il legal eXistance from the time OF
the passage Of this Act, and this Act
shall continue in force for the term OF
thirty years from and after the time of
its passage, and the privileges and fran
ehises granted by this Act shall not be
withdrawn during that term.
Approved March I, 1871.
AN ACT to amend dn -dct Entitled" an
dctto Rerise, Simplify and A6riclgc
The RuLes, Practice, Flcadings and
Forms Of the C0~tS in this State.
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the Sen
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 the first subdivision Of Section
o5 of the Act entitled IAN Act to revise
simplifyeaud abridge the Rules, Practice
Pleadings and Forms of the Courts in
tlfisGStatc," approved March I. A. ID.
1870, be amended so as to real as fol-
lows ..
The Court of General Sessions at
Greenvilie5 for she. County of Greenville
-on& the first Monday of january; May
and September; and the Court of: Conn
nionsPleastat Gfeeun willie, for the Coun-
ty Of Greenville, on the first Wednesday
after the first Monday in January, may
and September.
SEC. 2. The County of Marion is here
by transferred from the Fourth Court to
the Third Circuit. ! - ! - I<.5
SEC. 8. Section 20 of an Act entitled
"An Act torevisc, simplify and abridse
thu Rules Practice, Pleadings and
Forms of the Courts iu this State" is
hereby amended by the addition of the
folllowing subdivision: The .Court Of
General: Sessions at Marion, Tor the
County of Marion, OH the Third Mon
day after the fourth Monday of January,
MAY and October; and the Court Of Com
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