The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-03-01
LEoIsLATIvE PROCEEDINGS.
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 20, 1872.
GiINATE

4ne senate met at IL NJ, PRESIDENT
Ransier in the Chair.
Mr. Wimbush introduced q resolution
instructing the Sergeant-at-Arms to pro.
hibit anu prevent smoking in the Senate
Chamber, at all times and under all cir
cumstancess by any person whomsoever.
Adopted.
Mr.. Whittemore. from tho judiciary
Committee. reported n substitute for the
bill to regulate the issuing of checks by
planiei" 20 employees on plnptations.
Adopted.
Several bills were read the second
time and referred.
A bill to provide for general and spe-
cinl elections. and the manner of con-
Quoting the same, was amended and
ordered to be engrossad for third read
ing.
The report of the Committee on Pub
lie Lands on bill to provide for the
sale OF lands purchased by the Land
Commissioner, was indefinitely post
poned.
Mr.. Swails introduced bill to declare
North aud South Wimbee Greeks navi-
gable streams.
At 2.30 z. NJ, the Senate adjourned
until tomorrow, ut IL NJ.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
The House met ut IL NJ, Speaker
Mosfs 8 in the Chair.
Reports from com nittees were read
and laid on the table, and the bills re.
ported upon were read and ordered to
lie over
Mr.. s. J. Lee offered joint resolu.
ton, proposing an amendment to the
Constitution Of this State, which was
laid over.
Mr.. Hunter offered resolution, that
It committee Of three members be- ap-
pointed to wait upon the State Trea-
surer, and inquire what arrangements
have beon made by him for the payment
of the per diem Of the members of the
Legislature, go. Adopted.
The following joint resolutions and
bills were passed: Bills to establish q
public ferry in Fairfield County; to in
corporate the Firemen's Union, of
Charleston; to alter and amend the char
ter of the town Of Pendleton; to amend
Section 3l3 of on Act entitled "An Act
to revise. simplify and abridge the rules,
practice, peadings and forms of the
Courts of this State;" to incorporate the
Merchants Building, Loan and Trust
Company, of Aiken; to incorporate the
Rivers Guards. of Hamburg; to permit
James Mccullough to adopt, change the
name of, and make his lawful her, 10.
seph Allen Stepp; joint resolutions ap-
propriating $3.50 of the poll tax collected
in Newberry County, for the purpose Of
furnishing desks for the Hoge school;
authorizing certain persona to have
transcribed, for the County of Oconee,
so much of the records of the late Dis
trict of Pickens as relate to the County
OF Oconee; to pay to L. S. Langley, late
School Commissioner of Beaufort Coun-
ty, the sum Of $147.4S; bills to renew the
charter of the Congregation Derekh
Emeth, or Path of Truth, Of Columbia; F;
to incorporte the Damascus Baptist
Church, OF Sumter; to amend an ACT to
secure advances for agricultural pur-
poses; to exempt the Benedict Institute
from taxes; to amend the Act providing
for the construction and repair of high
ways; to require the passenger trains of
the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad Company to stop at Ham mburg;
to establish an inferior court for the
trial of criminal cases, in the County Of
Charleston; to charter the Spartanburg
and Port Royal Railroad Company; to
charter the Union Savings Bank, Of
GeorgetOwn; to charter the Raleigh,
Columbia and Augusta Railroad Com
pany; to legitimatize certain marriages,
and for other purposes mentioned there
in; to provide for constructing new
Court House for Richland County; to
authorize James G. Thompson and wife
to adopt the child of Mary Couch, and
to make it their lawful heir; to incorpo-
rate the Lancaster Rifle Company; to
authorize the building of bridge to
connect the islands of North and South
Edisto, at the location of the old bridge;
to incorporate the Planters Mining und
Manufacturing Company; to regulate the
responsibility Of parties holding colate-
rails az security for loans.
AT 3la p. NJ, the House took recess
until Z. M.
WATcH THIEF ARRESTED. Yesterday
Thomas McGinnis was arrested Mt the
instance of William Call, by whom he
was charged with stealing watch from
the latter last Saturday night. Both