The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-01-31
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 80, 1879.
SENATE

The Senate met at IL H., President
Rausierin the Chair.
Mr.. Maxwell introduced bill to re.
wise aud renew the charter Of the town
and Of the Bennettsville Academical SO.
Getty.
Mr.. Hayes To charter the State Saw
Jugs and Insurance Bank, of South Ca
rolinr.
Mr.iWhittemore- supply the def
cienoy i'll the appropriations for the
support and maintenahoe of FREQ schools
in South Carolina.
The further consideration OF tho bill
Indefinitely postponed.
The following bills we're laid on the
table: To incorporate tho Young Mems
Union Society, of Columbia; House bill
to incorporate the Randolph Enterprise
Association, OF Charleston; bill to can
Gel the liability Of the State on the gua-
rantee Of the Blue Ridge Railroad Com
pany.
In executive session. tho following
appointment was contirmed: John S.
Bird, as O Trial Justice for Laurens
County.
At2P NJ, the Senate adjourned until
IL NJ, tomorrow.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
The House met at IL NJ, Speaker
loses in the Chair.
Reports from the Committee Oh In.
corporations were read and laid over.
Mr.. Nemiahs introduced concurrent
resolution to authorize the Clerks of the
House and Senate to issue pny certiti-
Gates to the members of the General
Assembly and the officers and nttachees
thereto. from January 5. 1872. to Febru-
ary l6, 1872; adopted and sent to the Sc
nate.
MIR. Gary-Joint resolution to grant
the Governor power to supply vacancies
in the Board of Regents oil the Lnnatic
Asylum, made vacant by death or other
wise.
Mr.. Jas. Davis-Bill to amend an Act
entitled ''An Act relating to appren-
tices."
Mr.. Simons-Bill to provide for the
payment of jurors attending us jurors at
Coroners' inquests.
Mr.. A. L. Singleton-Bill to alter and
amend an Act entitled Gan Act to renew
and amend the charters of certain towns
and villages in the State"
| Mr.. Frost-Joint resolution to au-
thorize the County Commissioners of
Williamsburg to levy n special tax.
U4C. VuII6"4tCSOluGiOu luhG OH 0Du
after February 1, 1872, no new bills
be introduced in the House. Laid over.
| Notices of several bills were given.
The enacting clauses of the following
bills and Joint resolutions were stricken
out: A bill to regulate the salaries of
School Commissioners of the various
Counties of this State; joint resolution
to regulate the salary of County Trou-
surers; bills to regulate and fix the sala-
ries of tho County Commissioners of the
various Counties, and for other purposes;
to amend an Act entitled San Act to re-
gulato the disposition of fines and penal
ties imposed and collected in criminal
causes by the Circuit Court of General
Sessions and Trial Justices" no fur as it
] relates to Trial Justices; to confer upon
Trial Justices certain civil Jurisdiction !;
to extend the civil Jurisdiction of Trial
Justices to cases of trespasses upon real
estate, and to establish an expeditions
mode of electing trespassers therefrom !;
to repeal the charter of the Goose Creek
| Bridge, and to mako the same public
highway; to amend an Act entitled "An
ACT to grant the use of vacant lot in
the city of Columbia to the Palmetto
Lodge No. S, of the Independent Order
Of Odd Fellows, on certain conditions" !"
to appoint General Inspector of
Bridges and Trestleworks in the State Of
South Carolina; to amend an Act in re-
lation to free common schools; to amend
an Act entitled "An Act to provide for
tho construction and keeping in repair
of public highways and roads
A bill to punish persons engaged in
the business of lotteries, and the sale Of
lottery tickets, was recommitted.
Bills to grant aid to the State Agricnl-
tural and Mechanical Society; to pro1
vide for the establishment of Agricul-
turai Colleges; fog the protection, pre-
servation and propagation Of game, were
laid on the table.
The following bills were passed. To
authorize the County Commissioners of
Charleston to place flat ut Bouneau
Ferry; to authorize the erection Of q
bridge over tho Waterce River; to incor-
porate the Pnwnbrokers' Association of
Charleston; to alter the mode of appoint
ing one free student from each County
in tho State to the State University; to
approve, adopt and make of force the
general statutes Of the State of South
Carolina, prepared nnder tho direction
and By tue authority of the General AS