The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-02-28
Treasurer South Carolina.

Treasurer South Carolinn.
CHARTERS AND INCoRpoRATIoNs.-
Of the greatest channels for curtailing
an expense Of printing and saving Of
time IN considering bills, has been
opened by the passage in the Senate OF
the bill introduced by John r. Cochran,
Esq, and heretofore passed by tho
House. The Governor has signed this
Act ind it is now law. BY ita provis-
ions charters for churches, cemeteries,
fire. hook and ladder aud military COM
panics, Masonic and other lodges,
charitable, religious. labor, agricultural.
manufacturing, industrial, or similar
societies or computes, shall be granted
by the Clerk of the Courts upon appli.
cation to that oiii ,iul. If within ten
days fifty persons object in writing, the
Clerk may refuse, if he considers the
objections sufficient, the Judge of the
Circuit having power to decide. Ii he
refuse, then tho General Assembly may
be appealed to. Thirty days public
notice Is to be given by the parties ap-
plying for the charter in Que Of the
newspapers Of the County. The Act
claSsifies the charters. Class one com.
prlscs all labor. agricultural, mnnufac-
turing, industrial, mining aud companies
or associations of like nature; class two,
churches, &c; class tLree. charitable
and religious institutions, Free Masons
and such kind of societies. In jockey
and other sporting clubs the amount Of
property IS not 10 exceed o0U. .UUU. When
no objections arc presented, the Clerk
of tho Court is obliged to fill out the
blank charter, and IL allowed ioc of
80 therefor, except for churches, for
which the charter fee is fixed at 81. Iu
case the General Assembly grants any
charter, the corporators shall pay S. to
tho Secretary Of State for certificates of
Incorporation. All charters now ex-
listing in tho State can be renewed under
these provisions when they shall huvo
expired.
Mr.. Julius RAIDER, who, Immediately
after the close Of tho war, emigrAtcd to
Brazil. Is prospecting beyond his OK.
pectations. He has recently formed a
partnership in business with tho view to
the importation Of certain articles from
tho United States. RAIDER & Co. is the
| nuno Of the firm, established Mt Rio.
His many friends in Chester will be glad
| to heur Of his success.
On Thursday last. John Shea, q cor
poral in Company Q. of the 18Th R,gi-
| ment United States Infantry, stationed
at Yorkville, committed suitido, by
| shooting himself with u Mlsket Plnc-
ing the mnZzlo close to his left breast,
he touched the trigger withia ram-rod.
The ball passed through his body aud
lodged in the wall
Maj. TiIlman Watson died at his resi-
dence, on the Ridge, on Monday last
aged about scventy-two years. Major
Watson, once prominent in public and
political life, had lived for some years
past in such retirement, that his fellow
citizens. except along the Ridge, had in
great degree lost sight OF him.
A white woman residcng on Pacific
street, Snn francisco, married to q CO.
lored man, gavo birth recently to twins,
boy aud gel. The boy is black as
jot, but on the compensation principle,
the girl is white as lily.
Col. r. NJ. Kerr, OF Rock Hill, died
at Concord, N. O., on the 25th. Col.
Kerr served faithfully and gallantly
through the late war, both as Captain OF
Company H, and finally as Lieutenant
Colonel of the Twelfth.
It is said thai the Northern holders OF
South Carolina bonds are preparing to
tost the legality Of the action Of the
Legislature, in repudiating what are
known as the "Oonversion bonds"
James Warmoth, while in state of
intoxioation, froze to death last week,
in the vicinity of Lewis Turn Out,
Chester County.
Will s. Hays, the musical composer
and editor. is now @ journeyman job
printer in Louisville. KY.
The Georgia Legislature adjourned
sine die on the Goth.