The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-02-12
TIE TAXES FOR NEXT YEAR.
Eight MILLS for State Purposss-Three
Mills for the Counties, and Throe
mills for Anticipated Deficiencies.

mills for Anticipated Deficiencies.
[FRoM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.
COLUMBIA, 8. G., February 10.
The question as to whether the tax for
1874 should be levied at the present session
of the General Assembly or postponed until
next winter has been practically decided by
the emphatic vote by which each branch OF
the General Assembly has directed the House
committee on ways and means to report a tax
bill forthwith, and this command was to-day
responded to By that committee by the intro
duction OF the following tax bill:
A BILL authorizing and directing the comp.
troller-general and county commissioners
to levy certain taxes.
Be it enacled by the Senate and House Of
Representatives of the State OF South Caro-
liEs, now met and sitting in General Assem-.
bly,, and by the authority OF the same:
SECTION l. That the mptr0ller-general be,
and he is hereby, authorized and directed to
levy and cause to be collected q tax of six
mills on dollar of all taxable property 10 the
Slate to meet appropriations for the fiscal year
commencing November lst. 1873.
Sec. 2. That The mptroller-general be, and
he ia hereby, authorized and directed to levy,
In addition to The general State levy herein
before provided for, q lax OF two mil5 on all
the taxable properly In the Slate, for the sup
port of public schools, which shall be collect
ed at the same time the general State levy is
collected and paid into the treasury OF the
State. The same shall be the State school
fund, and shall be kept by the State treasurer
separate aud apart from all other funds In bis
possession. and shall, under no circumstances,
be used for other than school purposes.
SEC 8. Til 1t the comptroller-general s here
by authorized and required to levy and cause
to be collected, in addition 10 the levies au-
thorized In the preceding sections OF this act,
q tax OF three mills on dollar OF all the taxa
BILE property In the State In pay the deficiency
of the year commencing November l. 1872. j..
SEC 1. That the county commissioners OF
each of the counties are hereby authorized to
levy and cause to be collected tax not ex-
ceedng three mills on dollar Of all the TAXA
BILE property In their respective counties.
THE Ku KLux QUESTION.
The report by the Associated Press of the
intended withdrawal of the United States
troops from the Southern States appears to
have alarmed some OF the weak-kneed Be.
publlcans oil the Senate, and they adopted to-
day the following resolution, which was intro
duced by Senator Whittemore:
Be IL resolved, That our senators In the
United States Senate are hereby Instructed,
and our representatives In the House OF Rep
resentatlves at Washington are requested to
use their Influence against the withdrawal OF
the United States troops from this State and
10 represent to his EXcellency the President
of the United States that the withdrawal OF the
same would te at the present time detrimental
10 the permanent establishment and mainte.
nance OF law and order In this State, and that
his Excelency the Governor is hereby re.
quested to forward to each OF them certified
copies OF this resolution.
MORE INVESTIGATIONS.
II there is any one thing In which the pres.
ent members Of the South Carolina Leglsla-
ture are particularly great, 1t Is In their desire
for investigation. This anxiety of theirs
proves superior to all considerations of ety.
mology, orthography aud syntax, and they
break out at Intervals 10 such curious streaks
,as the following, which is an exact copy, uer-
Datum et literatir,, OF o resolution offered by
Representative Turner, Of Charleston, and
adopted by the House:
RESOLVED by the House of Representatives..
the senate Concurrlng, That Committy Of
three (S) on the part OF the House, and-on
the part of the Senate be appointed TO lnVes-
tigate the Amount of Property owned by the
South Carolina Rail Road Company exzemped
from Taxation under thelar Charter, and also,
the Amount of Property Exzemped by Said
Charter, said Committee TO have power TO
send for pergous and papers. And thsy shall
make their Report to the Jeneral Assembly
within Ten (l0) days after its Next Merling,
nrovlded they receive no pay. PICKET.