The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1872-05-30

titled Gan act to establish quarantine at
Georgetown, Charleston and Hilton Head,
approved the 18th day of September, A. D.,
1868, as provides that the anchorage ground
for vessels in quarantine, port OF Ellton
Head. shall be where it has heretofore been:
is hereby repealed. -;
Sec. 3. That the said anchorage shall b.
and the same is hereby, located at some point
on the north side of Paris Island, to be des-
irnated by the buoys anchored under the
direction of the health officers Of that port.
Sec. 3. That quarantine station shall be
established at Saint Helena Sound, (cover-
ing the sound and adjacent rivers with an
chorare ground for vessels where it has here.
tofore been, and that health officer tor said
station shall be appointed by the Governor,
who shall hold his Office for term OF two
wears, unless sooner removed, with the same
comnensation now allowed the health officers
of Georgetown and Hilton Head.
SEC. 4. If any person or persons employ
ed upon any vessel, railroad, express, or
other conveyance, shall receive and convey
any person affected with any contagious or
infectious disease, or shall receive and trans
port anv dead body, to any Of. the cities or
towns located upon the cost of this State,
without permission from the health officer OF
the port of Charleston, between the 1st day
of April and the 1st day of December, such
person or persons shall be deemed guilty OF f
3 misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall
be punished by fine not exceeding one
thousand dollars, or Imprisonment tor a term
not exceeding one year.
SEC. 5. Ali permits issued by health ofh-
GERS shall be at the expense Of the vessel or
conveyance to which such permits may be
issued, and shall be collected by the health
officer issuing the same.
SEC. G. That so much Of Section 70 as
requires the health officers Of Georgetown
and Hilton Head to report their doings to
the Governor at the end ofeach month is here
by repealed; and that the said officers, together
with any and all other health officers who
may be appointed subsequent to the passage
of this act, shall report the same, at the end
of each month, to the health officer OF the
port of Charleston, whose duty it shall be
to forward a consolidated report OF the do
;nps of such officers to the Governor Of the
State monthly and the Legislature annually
Approved March 4, 1872.
AN ACT to Incorporate the Charleston
Joint Stock Company of the State Of South
Carolina, for the benefit of State Orphan
Asylum.
SECTION 1. BE it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives Of the State OF
South Carolina, now met and sitting in Gen
eral Assembly, and by the authority OF the
same: u,
That G.. W. Rouse, A. A. Aspinwall,
Robert Smalls, Joseph Brown, I. B. King,
J. L. Little, c. W. Summer, David Green,
Lewis Wilson, Jesse Browsher, Stephen >.
Maxwell, Lucius Wimbush, Thos. ii. Black
we'll. O. r. Levy, Chapman 3. Thomas, Jas
w. Elmore, Y. Sands, Jno. Douglass, benJ'
Simons, Jas. Gregory, and such other per-
sons as may now, or hereafter shall be asso
ciated with them, are hereby made and de-
clared to be body polite and corporate
under the name and style of the Charleston
Joint Stock Company, Of the State OF South
Carolina, or such other name as they may
now or hereafter assume.
Sec. 2. That oil the rights Of corporations
known as banks, be, and the same are here
BY, vested in said company, for the purpose
Of loanins out money on interest, purchasing
and mortgaging real estate, buying persona
property; and they shall have the same rights
and privileges now enjoyed by banking
houses in this State. They shall also have
the right 10 dispose of all property, such a
real estate, personal or mixed, that they shall
become possessed of, iii any manner, and OF
such conditions as said company may deem
right and proper to the advantage OF sai'
company, and to promote the interests OF th9
: said Orphan Asylum.
Sec. 3. That, before commencing Duslnes
under the provisions Of this act, the sal'
company shall pay, or cause the same to b
paid; into the hands of the State treasurer
the sum of two thousand (2,OOU dollars, t
be used for the benefit Of the State Orphan
E Asylum of South Carolina, and, annual,
thereafter, a like amount, for the term o
ten years, or so long as the said compa,n
shall choose to continue to do business, 1t be
ing understood and agreed that said paymen
of two thousand dollars per annum by sal!
f company, is the consideration upon whlc!
tho privileges. of incorporation herein
e granted, and whenever said company sha
e fail to pay said consideration, then thel
: right to transact business shall cease.
SEC. 4. That this company, incorporate
!. and established by this act, shall have tu
i power, and is hereby authorized, to establls
o agencies throughout the State:
a Sec. 5. That this act shall be Of force In
mediately on and after its passage.
!. Office Secretary of State |
" Columbia, S. c., March 5, 1872.
" This act having been presented to II
Io Governor of this State for his approval, an