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AN ACT to Incorporate the Sumter
Academiral Society.

Academltal society.
SECTION l. BE it enacted by the
Senate and House of Representatives
of the State Of South Carolina, now
met and sitting in General Assembly,
and ny the authority of the same,
That Franklin ]. Moses Jr., Samu-
cl Lee, r.. B. Johnson, A. L. Singleton,
J. N. Corbett, w. J. Andrews, togeth-
er with such other person or persons
as are now, or may hereafter be, asso-
ciatcd with them, shall be, and they
are hereby, constituted und made a
body polite and corporate, by the
name and style of "The Sumter Aca-
demical Society,"" with power to sue
and be sued, to plead and be implead-
ed, to possess and hold, subject to
former grants, eschcatsd and other
property'wilhin tho County of Sum-
ter, to an amount not exceeding
twenty thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. That all property heretofore
vested in the Trustees Of "rhe Sumter
Academcal Society,"" Incorporated by
an Act entitled 'An Act to incorpo
rate certain companies and societies"
passed on the twentieth day of De-
cember, A. D. 1887, be, and the same
is hereby, vested in the incorporators
named in this Act, and such incorpo-
ralors shall be deemed and held in law
to be the proper and legal successors
| Of such former Il uStecs.
SEC. 8. That the corporators of the
said Academical Society, named in
the first Section of this Act, be, and
they are hereby, authorized and en-
powered, for the benefit Of the Socie.
ty herein Incorporated, and for no
other purpose, to exchange the lot OF
land which was conveyed by the late
J. B. Miller 10 certain T ustees for
educational purposes, Of whom +. }
Moses, or. is the survivor: Provided,
That the condition Of the exchange
shall be, that lot Of tho same size,
within the corporate limits of the
town of Sumter, shall be given, and a
frame house, of equal capacity Of the
academy lately destroyed by fire,
completely furnished with desks and
seats, shall be erected thereon, sub
ject to the acceptance of the atore-
mentioned corpol ators.
SEC. 4. This Act to be deemed a
public Act, and remain in full force
until repealed.
| hornI 10 1870
AN ACT to After and Amend an Act
entitled San Act to Revise, Simplify
and Abridge the Rules, Practice,
Pleadings and Forms Of Courts in
this State"
Section l. Be it enacted by the
Senate and House Of Representatives
of tho State Of South Carolina, now
met and sitting in General Assembly,
and by the authority OF the same:
That Section 80 of an Act entitled
Gan Act to revise, simplify and
abridgo the rules. practice, pleadings
and forms of Courts in this State"
approved the first day OF March, A.
d. 1870, be, and the same is hereby,
altered and amended by striking out
theretrom the words cor by a referee
appointed by the Court for that pur-
pose" and the word ''rcteree" i'm
mediatey thereafter. a
Approved March l3, 1872.
AN ACT for the Protection and
Preservation of Useful Animals.
Section |. Be it enacted by the
Senate 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 it shall not be lawful for any
person in this State to kill any deer,
or worry them with dogs, or other
wise, with the intention Of destroying
them. between the first day Of Janu-
ary and the first day Of September,
in any year thereafter.
SEC. 2. That any person violating
the foregoing provision of this Act,
shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined
not | .ss than twenty dollars, or be
imprisoned not less than twenty days,
which ine, if imposed, shall bc cover
able before any Court of competent
jurisdiction; onc-half thereof shall 80
TO the intormer, and the other half
thereof to the school fund of the
said County.
SEC. 3. That any person in whose
possession recently killed vcnIson, or
fresh deer skins, shall be found, be-
tween the dates above mentioned,
shall be liable to the same penalty as
those violating Section 2 Of this Act.
SEC. 4. That it shall rot be lawful
for any person, in this State between
the 18th day Of February and the
18th day OF October, in any year
hereafter, to catch, kill or injure, or
to pursue, with such intent. or sell,
or EXPOSE for sale, any wild turkey,
partridge, dove, wood-cock, snlpe or
ipheasant; and any person found gull
ty thereof shall be fined not less than
ten dollars, or be imprisoned not less
than ten days, which fine. if imposed,
shall 20 onc-half thereof to tho in
former, and the other half thereof to
the school fund where the olfense was
committed.
SEC. 5. That it shall not be lawful
for any person, in this State, to wall
tonly shoot, or cntrap, for the pnr-
pose of killing, or in any other man.
ncr destroy, any bird whose principal
food is insects, Or take or destroy the
eggs or young Of any species or va
rlvties OF birds that are protected by
the provision Of this Act, comprising
all the species and varieties OF birds
represented by several families Of
swallows, bats, whip-poor-wilIs, fly