The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-03-07

right of dover; joint resolution author:
izing the Attorney General 20 appoint q
COMMITTEES TO investigat jntrBges perpe-
trated in vatious Counties; bills TO vest;
in the President Of the Senate aud
Speaker Of the House Of Representa-
tives powersto call extra sessions OF the
General Assembly; to provide for the
paying OF improvements made on the
property of other persons; to enlarge
and define the powers Of the Charleston
City Board of School Commissioners,
and to allow said board to levy tax for
tho support of free schools in the city of
Charleston; joint resolution authorizing
tho President of the Senate and Speaker
of the House of Representatives to call
n special session of the Legislature; bill
to regulate the granting Of wrts of
habeds corpus in certain cases.
The following bills and resolutions
were taken up, and, on motion, laid on
the table: Resolutions that his Excel
lency the Governor be requested to COM
munioate with the President of the
United States, and request sufficient
number of military officers to drill militia
of tho State; authorizing the County
Commissioners of Spartanburg County
to levy special tax; bills to incorporate
the Saving Building and Loan Associa-
tion of South Carolina; to incorporate
the Workingmen's Mutual Benefit Life
Assurance Association of South Carolina;
to authorize the County Commissioners
of Lancaster County to levy a special or
additional tax.
A report of the joint committee ap-
pointed to Investigate certain affairs at
the penitentiary was taken up. The re-
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the committee discharged.
MIR. Whipper introduced Joint reso-
luton. authorizing tho State Auditor
aud County Commissioners to levy a
certain tax; referred to the Committee
on Ways and Means Also, joint reso-
luton authorizing the State Treasurer
to pay L. A. Bigger $1,000 referred
to tho Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to create debt of the State of
South Carolina. to be known rs the
sterling funded debt, the sume, or the
proceeds thereof, to be exclusively used
in exchange for, or in payment of the
existing public debt of the said State,
was read third time, and passed by
vote of ayes S3; nays 81.
MIR. Byas, from the Committee on
Claims, reported back the account of T..
Cnln and others, for services as special
constabies, and recommended thnt they
be paid. Adopted.
bill to prevent persons from holding
more than one Office of profit and trust
ut the same time In this State was post
poned until the next regular session.
A Senate bill to regulate the granting
OF divorces was taken up and postponed
until the next regular session.
joint resolution authorizing the Go
vernon to have the flooring and roof of
the State House repaired was ordered to
be engrossed.
Consideration of Governors message,
No. IA, returning without his approval,
an Act to empower the County Commits
sioners of Georgetown County to levy
special tax, was postponed to the next
session.
The Com mittee on Engrossed Bills re-
ported the following, which were read O
third time and passed, and ordered to
be enrolled: A joint resolution author
Izing the Secretary of State to contract
with the Southern Domestic Gas Light
Company for the illumination of the
State House and Offices thereof; bills to
confer the rights of legitimacy on GER
tain children; to provide the manner for
obtaining the right of way where lands
are surrounded by other lands; to permit
VIM. Y. Myers to adopt and make his
lawful heir Dora V. Banter, and to
change the name of the said Dora V.
Banter to Dora V. Myers; to regulate
the call of the docket of the Supreme
Court; to incorporate the Union Gold
Mining Company; to enable judgment
debtors to sell their real and personal
property, and to confirm sales already
made ia conformity with conditions
therein specified; to relinquish all the
rights, title and interest of the State, in
and to certain real estate, whereof one
Napoleon B. Pouncey. Of Horny, q bas-
tard, died seized, and vest the same in
certain persons therein named; to char
ter the South Carolina Phosphate and
Phosphate River Mining Com pany, and
to grant to the persons therein named,
and their associates, the right to dig and
mine in the beds of the navigable streams
and waters of the State, for phosphate
rocks and phosphate deposits; joint re-
solution directing part of certain tax
to bo devoted to the erection of court
house and jail at Manning.
A communication was received from
the President Of the Senate, declining
to N fho