The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-02-25
LEGIsLATIvE PROCEEDINGS.
SATURDAY, FEDRuAnx "a, 1872.
SENATE

Is
Inc Senate assembled at II M., Presi-
dent Ransier in the Chair.
The report of the Committee on the
judiciary on joint resolution proposing
an amendment to the Constitution of tho
state OF South Carolina, was. after q
long and animated discussion, rejected.
Joint resolution to relieve E. NJ. Rose
las county Treasurer Of York County,
and his bondsmen, was passed.
A bilito make appropriations for the
per diem and mileage of the members of
the General Assembly, and the salaries
OF the subordinate officers, was passed,
and ordered to be returned to the House
of Representatives..
A number OF reports from committees
were read and laid over.
At 3. 10 Z. NJ, the Senate adjourned
until Monday. Mt IL Nj.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE
Inc House met at IL NJ, Speaker
Moses in the Chair.
"A blll to regulate scales, weights and
measures IN oil cities, towns and villages
in the State, was taken up. A substi-
tuse bil! was introduced and adopted.
Inc following bills were passed. To
charter the State Savings and Insur-
ance Bank of Anderson; to amend an
Act entitled ''An Act to establish a
Quarantine at Charleston, Georgetown
and Hilton Head; to regulate the pay
of the members OF the Gener Assem-. .
bly,; to abolish the Office of State Audi
tor. and confer the dutios of said Office
upon the Comptroller. General; to incor-
porate Big Horse Ferry, over Beaufort
niver' IN Beaufort County; to incorpo-
rate the Aiken Light Infantry of
Aiken; to incorporate the Mishaw Light
Infantry OF Charleston; to incorporate
the Carolina Light Infantry of Charles.
ton; to renew the charter of the Hope
Fire Engine Comfan of Charleston; !;
TO recharter the Gowausville Lodge No.
lo1, A: L. NJ, OF South Carolina; joint
resolution to pay to the widow of the
late Judge Pratt the amount due him
TOT services rendered before his death :;
bills for the relief of the widows and
orphans OF persons killed by the Ku
AUX; to mend the law in relation to
the license and registration of pharmn-
ceutlsts, apothecaries and druggists, and
to regulate the vending of drugs and
medicines; joint resolution authorizing
State Treasurer to pay to G. Is. Far
mer the sum of $3.50 for extra
services rendered as District Judge for
County, in 1868.
Mr.. Mobley introduced n concurrent
resolution to authorize the Governor to
grant and convey to Palmetto Lodge,
No. 5, l. O. 0. f., a certain lot of land
III the city of Columbia, heretofore
granted them.
Mr.. P. A. Davis offered the following
Joint resolution, which was referred:
Resofced, by the Senate and House
OF Representatives of the State of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in General
Assembly, and 10y authority of the same,
That the large chandelier formerly sus.
pended in the centre of the hall of the
House OF Representatives, now lying on
the lower floor of the State House, be.
and the same is hereby, given for the
specific use and benefit of the military
hall IN the city of Charleston: Prorided,
That said chandelier be suspended in
said hall as soon after the passage of
this Joint resolution as possible, by such
suitable person rs shall be designated
by his Excellency tho Governor.
The Speaker laid before the House
the proceedings of q meeting of the
Board of Trade of Columbia, submitting
certain resolutions in favor of the bill
to allow the Columbia Water Power
Company to build dam across the Con-
garee River, which was ordered to lie
over until the original bill shall bo taken
up.
At 8 P. NJ. the House adjourned until
Monday next, at IL NJ
The Jeaoish Messenger, has an article
upon distinctive Judaism" in which
we find this genial paragraph: