Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-01-30
THE SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE.

TUESDAY, January 81.
In THE SENATE, the unfavorable reports of
The respective committees on bill to abolish
the office of county Auditor. and bill to
make the Offices of county Treasurers elective,
were adopted.
The following bills were laid on the table:
A. bill to prevent State and county officers from
holding more than one office; a bill to require
Trial Justices to give bond and to otherwise
define their duties bill to set apart fund
for the payment of jurors and witnesses in
State cases bill to abolish the office of
county Auditor.
The enacting clause of bill to require
owners or lessees of lands to remove fallen trees
from the highways, adjoining their lands, was
stricken out.
The report of the Committee on Education
on bill concerning school funds, was taken
up and received its second reading and was
ordered to be engrossed.
In THE HOUSE, Mr. Cochrane introduced
bill to regulate the deposits of State, county
and other funds.
The bill provides that "the public funds, in
the various counties in the State, shall be de-.
posted in certain banks, to be designated by
the State Financial Board, to consist of the
Governor, Comptroller-General, Treasurer,
Attorney-General and Judges of the Circuit
Courts, of the respective Circuits. Such
banks are required to purchase bonds or
stocks, other than their own, to the amount of
80 per cent. of the amount so deposited with
them, and to deposit said bonds with the
Comptroller General, who shall publish week
ly statements of such bonds. No moneys 80
deposited shall be drawn from the bank ex-
cept upon check signed by a majority of
the County Commissioners, and the clerk,
countersigned by the Treasurer of the county.
"The bill also provides that it shall be the
duty of the State Treasurer to deposit all
State funds by him received, in the bank or
banks designated by the Board, which mon
eys shall be drawn by a check of the State
Treasurer, countersigned by the Governor
The Treasureris is to publish monthly statements
of all moneys received and paid out by him.
The amount of interest to be allowed on all
deposits shall not be less than at the rate Of
per cent. The banks in which the deposits
are to be made, shall execute bond to the
State in the penal sum of 100000 for the
faithful performance of the trust, said bond to
be approved by majority of the Justices Of
the Supreme Court"
Mr.. Thomas introduced bill to establish
new judicial and election county, to be COM
posed of portions of Charleston and Colleton.
and to he known as Dorchester county. Read
and referred.
The enacting clause was stricken out ofa
bill to lay out and establish q new road in
Union county, and bill to repeal the lien
law.
A bill to punish any person or persons, who
shall sell and convey any real or personal
property on which a lien of any kind may ex-
ist without giving notice of the same to the
purchaser or purchasers, was ordered to be
engrossed for third reading.
A Joint resolution to refund to A. Williford
certain excessive taxes paid by him, was or.
dered to be engrossed.
Mr.. NJ. S. Miller introduced bill to pro-
vide COR the registry Of births, deaths and
marriages, which is in substance as follows:
"That the parent or parents of every child
that shall hereafter be born in this State shall
register the birth of such child in the Office of
the Clerk of the Court in the county where
the birth takes place within sixty days after
that event, under penalty of fine of $25
and imprisonment for five or thirty days. 1t
is made the duty of the head of every family
in the State to register within sixty days eve
ry death that shall occur in his or her family,
under like penalty. Section 8 provides that
every man who shall be married in the State,
must register the important event within sixty
days, under similar penalty. The Clerks
fees are fixed at 81 for each marriage, and
the person registering his marriage must pro-
duce a certificate thereof from the minister or
Trial Justice performing the ceremony. The
Act is to take effect on and after July 81,
1873.