The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-01-17

in The Office of said clerk of Court of Genera
Sessions, and open TO lhs inspection Of the
public.
SEC. 3. Any trial Justice who shall fall tt
make said return, shall not De allowed to re
cei7e from the county 10 which he exercises
in tho causes before him during the perIoC
in which he has failed TO make such report OF
return, and upon failure for two successive
terms of court of general sessions in bis
cohnty to make such report shall be subject tC
Indictment, aud upon conviction thereof, shall
be fined not less than one hundred nor more
than two hundred dollars, and imprisoned moi
less than sixty nor more than ninety days
THE DELINQUENT TAX BALES.
The Senate finance committee to-day report.
ed uufavorably on the bill to repeal the first
section of an act entitled IAN act providing
for the assessment and taxation OF property
passed September Is, 1868, and all acts amend
atory thereto, approved March IL, 1872. This
bill proposed TO rereal the law which was
rushed through last winter to authorize the
sale of lands upon which the State and county
taxes were unpaid within ninety days. aud its
unfavorable reception by the committee may
be taken as an index of its final late in the
Assembly.
| SALARIES OF SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS.
The Senate committee on education to-day
reported favoraby on the bill to amend Sec
| tion IL, chapter 3S, of the General Statutes,
relating to the salary OF county school commits
sioners, which proposes to reduce the salaries
| Of the school commissioners of Charleston
County from twelve hundred dollars to one
thousand dollars, and of the commissioners
In the other counties from one thousand dol
lars to t1re hundred dollars
THE cHERAw AND CHESTER RAILROAD.
Senator Dunn this morning introduced q
bill to charter the Cneraw and Chester Rail-
road Company, which names as incorporators
| Messrs. F. A. Kehew, W. A. GreeIleaf, C. B.
Stuart, Henry Mc1Ver, b. Craig, 3. Jackson,
J. s. Miller, W. A. Evans, John Erwin, W. A.
Moore, VIM. Stevens, G. A. Plyer, John r.
Welch, Geo. W. Melton, A. 81. Davega, I. 81.
Moffatt, VIM. B. MCMILLAN and John Lilley.
The charter gives to the company the usual
rights and privileges, fixing the capital stock
of the company at one million dollars, In fifty
dollar shares, with authority to Increase the
same at the discretion OF the directors, and
with power 10 issue bonds secured by mort
gage on the property and franchises of the
road. Authority Is also given to consolidate
with any other railroad forming continuous
line with Its own according to the provisions
of Sections to Is Of Chapter IS OF the Gene
raj Statutes.
Senator Dunn also introduced resolution
to authorize The county commissioners OF
Horny 10 levy special tax of two mills on
the dollar to be used exclusively 10 the repairs
of bridges and in the payment Of the county
debt.
GOING FOR THE PLURALIsrs.
Senator Mcintyre introduced bill to pre-.
vent State and county officers from holding
more than one Office, which provides that
from and after the passage of this act no per-
son shall be eligible to hold any State or
county office, either by election or appoint
NIL hca nr0Ht
trust under this State, except officers in the
militia, and any person accepting an appoint
ment or election to any office Of profit or
trust whilst holding another shall forfeit both
of the said offices.
The same senator also introduced the fol-
lowing resolutions:
Resolued, That the committee on military
and directed to investigate the purchase OF
arms from the Roberts Arms Company, and
to report on or before the first day of Februa-
ry DeXt, said committee to have power TO send
ior persons and papers.
THE STATE AUXILIARY COMPANY.
The charter of the State Auxiliary Joint
Stock Company, which Is an association de-
signed to extend the facilities OF the State
Agricultural and Mechanical Society, was the
subject of considerable debate In the Senate,
which ended by striking out the seventh Sec
tion OF the bill (proposing an annual bonus
from the State OF s5O0O) aud inserting the fol-
lowing substitute:
"That the said company shall receive from
the treasury of the State, on the first day OF
January in each year, bonus equal to the
State tax assessed upon the necessary build
for the said year; such bonus 10 be continued
for FIVE years after the passage. of this act."
ANOTHER HOSPITAL IN CHARLESTON.
in lp,hi
proposes to establish hospital for indigent
81 * persons In the Parish OF st. James Goose
creek, which authorizes and requires the
county commissioners to build a hospital IN
some convenient place In the parish, ana to
employ a physician, to be paid IN the same
manner and amount as other public physt-
clans, provided that the expense of the said
hospital building fitall not exceed two thou
sand dollars.
STOCK ON THE SEA ISLANDS.
Representative Petty introduced bill to
fix the time tor turning out and taking up
stock on the sea islands of this State. IL en-
acts that it shall not be lawful for any person
to allow horses, mules, cattle, hogs, sheep or
goats TO run at large on The sea islands OF the
State except from the first day OF October TO
the first day Of April, and provides that If any
such shall be found Ia any 6eld In which there
shall be growing or upgathered any grain,
COlLUt VI fcSSldulO loioco ioA luoh-
ket or domestic consumption, 1t shall be law
fnl for the owner OF such field to seize such
horses, mules, cattle, sheep or goats, and
keep them In confinement until he shall have
notified the owner thereof, who shall be re-
quired TO pay 10 the owner of the land all
damages which he or she may have sustained.
THE LUMBER LAW.
Representative Meetze this morning pre-
sented petition from the manufacturers,
traders, dealers aud consumers Of lumber In
the City oil Charleston, praying that the law,
as 1t now stands, for the inspection and meas |
urement of timber and lumber, be not changed.
The reasons that are given Ia the petition In
favor OF leaving the law as 1t now stands and
against the passage OF the bill now before the
Assembly are as follows:
In the first place the law, as 1t now stands,
is satisfactory to all parties except the few
inspectors and measnrers of timber whose
fees would be greatly increased by the passage
OF said bill, at the expense OF the producers
aud consumers OF timber and lumber. All we
ask of your honorable body Is to leave the
products of the forests free from unnecessary
encumbrances in the way of trade, such as
the bill proposes, whereby few may be bene-
flied at the expense of the many, and they,
TOO, of the laooriDg class. In the second
place, the bill is Objectionable In Its features
because 1t applies only to the City OF Charles
ton. whereas all law should be uniform and
appiv alike to citizens In every portion OF the
Slate Getting under similar circumstances. Let
us have no same law for Charleston as for
roo,rato,,n opd Peanfort and other nOrtinna