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RyW ALEE AND HUGH WILSON.
JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the
State Auditor to Suspend Proceedings

Be it Resolved by the Senate ana
House of Representatives of the StUte OF
South Carolina, now met and sitting III
General Assembly and by the authority
of the same. That the State Auditor be
and is hereby authorized and instructed
| to suspend all proceedings, under the
Act IS provided for the assessment ana
taxation of property, passed 18th day OF
, September, 1868, relative to the assess
ment and taxation of the South Carolina
Northeastern, and Cheraw and Darling
! ton Railroad Companies, until the SUITS,
brought by said companies in the United
! States Circuit Court, shall have been
! decided.
Approved the 18th day of January, A.
D. ISL.
AN ACT Ccdmg the Jurisdiction Of
the State OF South Carolina to INC tM-
ted States Of America, Orcr stch Lhnds
rs muu be ucoo,iyed for public purposes
6y the said United States Of -1n1crtca.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of REPRESENTATIVE Of the State OF South
| Carolina, now met and sitting in Gencl-
al Assembly, and by the authority OF
the same, That the jurisdiction OF the
State of South Carolina is hereby cedcd
to the United States Of America, over 80
much land as shall be necessary for the
public purposes of the United Statos:
| Proridcd. That the jurisdiction hereby
! celed shall not vest until the United
States of America shall have acquired
the title to the lands by grant or deed
from the owner or owners thereof and
the .evidences thereof shall have been
recorded in the office where, by law, the
titles to such land is recorded, and the
United States of America are to retain
such Jurisdiction so long as such lands
shall be used for the purposes in this
Act mentioned, and no longer; and
such jurisdiction is granted upon the
express condition that the State OF
South Carolina shall retain concurrent
Jurisdiction with the United States IN
and over the said lands, SO far as, that
civil process, in all.cases not affecting
the real and personal property OF the
United States in and over the said lands,
so far as, that civil process, in all cases
not affecting the real or personal proper,
ty of the United States, in all criminal
or other process as shall issue under the
authority of the State of South Carolina
against any person or persons charged
with crimes or misdemeanors commit
ted within or without the limits of the
said lands, may be executed therein, in
, the same way and manner as If 10 Ju-
risdiction had been hereby ceded.,
SEC. 9. That all the lands and tene-
ments @ which may be granted, as afore-
said, to the United States, shall be and
continue, so long as the same shall be
used for the purposes in this Act men
toned, exoneratcd and discharged from
all taxes, assessments and other charges
which may be imposed under the au-
the authority Of the State of the State
of South Carolina.
Approved February II, 1871.
AN ACT to Rcchartcr 1Goore's Ferry,
Cnticr the name Of Ditkin's Ec'1,y,
over the CutdtCbn Rirer.
SECTION 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 the Ferry
over the Catawba River, known as
Moore's Ferry, be, and the same is here
by rechartercd under the name of Din
Sins' Ferry, and vested in l.. NJ. Din
kins, and his legal representatives, for
the term of fourteen years from the pas
sage of this Act, with the same privileges
rights, franchises and emoluments rs
are at present secured by law; Provided,
howercr That children going to and
returning from school, and others going
to and returning from church or return
ing from elections, shall be passed free
over said ferry.
Approved February II, 1871.
AN ACT to amend an Act entitled "Aa
dct to Establish c. State Orphan A$y-
lum.
BE it 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 Section 6 of the Act to es-
tablish State Orphan Asylum, passed
January l9, 1867, be SO amended as to
give to the Trustees thereof the power
to bind out orphan children resident
therein Provided, that said Trustees
shall make it, in all cases, condition
that said children shall receive a good
common school education, and that said
Trustees shall exercise supervisory
control over such children, during the
continuance Of their apprenticeship.
Approved February IL, 1871.
JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the
Executive to Commission Ridley K.
Carton as Coroner Of Beaufort CoMa-
| tn.
Whereas, Elisha P. Hutchinson, elected
Coroner of Beaufort County for four
years ending October, 1875, has remov-
! ed his residence to foreign country, to
wit, Germany, without duly filing his
letter of resignation of his office; and
the said office has remained vacant from
and after March, 1870, and whereas, not
withstanding due proclamation was not
made previous to late general election
that vacancy existed in the said Office
of Coroner, i'll said County, the people
did proceed to vote for Coroner, and
Ridley K. Carlton was artcrward declar-
| ed by the Board of County Canvassers
to have received the highest number of
votes for Coroner of said County:
Be it resolved, by the Senate and
House of Representatives, of the State.
of South Carolina now met and sitting
in General Assembly, and by the author
ity of the same, That Ridley X. Carlton,
elected Coroner of Beaufort County at
the general election of October 10, 1870,
be commissioned by the Executive OF
South Carolina Coroner, to fill the un-
expired term of Elisha P. Hutchinson.
Approved February II, 1871.
AN ACT to Incorporate the South Car
dina Saving and Buit1ing Assoction,
No. 2.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Sem
ate and House of Representative OF the
State of South Carolina, now met and
sitting in General Assembly, and 6y
, the authority of the same, That c. ID.
> Brahe, G. Plenge, J, Steiber, r. 1ssertel
Henry E. Eckel, NJ. Israel, A. Tieent-
thai, f. F. Benedickt, Philip Meitzler,
John Rugheimer, A. w. Eckel, Charles
! Litschgi, A. Niemann, Edward Pills