The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-03-26
cause patent aud patents to be issued

cause o patent and patents to be issued
to any such person as may be the bona
fde purchaser, owner. assignee or trans-
feree Of such lands or tenements, under
and by virtue of any certificates of sale.
or under and by virtue OF any assign
ment or transfer OF snch certificate: !:
Prouided, That in case of on assignment
or transfer Of certificate OF sale, the
person applying for such patent shall
give satisfactory proof to the County
Treasuret OF the preceding transfers and
assignments. That the County Trea-
surer of each County shall, on or before
| December Is OF each year, report to the
General Assembly all lands sold under
the provisions of this Act, tho certfi-
Gates OF sale Issued, and the terms, as
we'll as the amount of each sale, and the
disposition OF the funds 80 derived. All
moneys acoruing to the State under the
proyisions ct THE Act, except &c rro-
vided for in Section for tho school
fund, shall be paid over and accounted
TOR in the same manner as money re-
ceived for taxes.
That the payment for installments and
interest due upon lands purchased by
citizens of this State from the Land
Commissioner be, and they are hereby,
postponed to December l, 1874, and the
Secretary Of State is herein required to
stay oil proceedings iu the collection Of
the same until the date as above men
toned.
ALIENS TO HOLD PROPERTY. That
corporations created under the laws, or
by the authority OF other States and
nations, were intended 10 have, and
shall have and exercise ull rights grant
ed to aliens under the Ac! aforesaid, al
fully as if they had been specially therein
named.
FIVE CONGRESSIONAL DIsTRICTs That
The State shall be divided Into five Con.
grossional Districts, as follows, to wit:
The first Congressional District to be
composed Of the Counties of George
town, Williamsburg, Darlington, Marl-
boro, Marion, Horny. Chesterfield and
Sumter; the second of Charleston, Lex.
ington, Orangeburg and Clarendon; the
third OF .Richland, Newberry, Abbeville.
Laurens, Anderson, Ooonee and Pickens;
the fourth Of Greenville, Spartanburg,
Union, York, Chester, Fairfield, Ker-
shaw and Lancaster; the fifth of Barn
well, Colleton, Beaufort, Edgefeld and
Aiken; that until the next apportion.
ment by the Congress of the United
States each of the Congressional Dis
tricts shall be entitled to elect one mem
ber to represent this State in the Con-
gress Of the United States. After each
new apportionment by Congress the
General Assembly shall divide the State
into as many Congressional Districts as
it is entitled TO members in the Hou .e
Of Representatives of the United States.
PAYMENT OF PAST DUE SCHOOL CLAIMS.
That the School Commissioners of the
several Counties Of this State shall pro.
ceed forthwith. upon the passage of this
Act, to report to the County Treasurera
OF their respective Counties the number
and amount of past due school claime
up to the first day of November, 1872,
remaining unpaid in their respective
Counties: Provided. That all school
claims issued prior 10 the first day oi
November. 1872. shall be first paid as
prescribed in this ACT. That the County
Treasurers Of the several Counties OF
the State, upon receiving such reports,
shall! devote the poll tax collected in
their respective Counties to the pay
m.nt Of the claims SO reported, and also
whatever snrplns may remain of the
fund raised for the support OF the
widows and orphans OF those killed on
account of their political opinions, in
those Counties where such levy has been
III sde; and ehould the amount Of poll
tax collected in any County, in the first
year after the passage of this Act, be in.
sufficient to pay the whole of said
claims. then the County Treasurer OF
such County shall pay out the same pro
ratr. and continue the same from year
to year, until the whole amount OF such
claim shall have Ceen paid, endorsing
each partial payment on each claim. and
the party receiving such partial pay
ment shall receipt to such Treasurer for
each partial payment, the said receipt to
be kept fled by such Treasurer as his
voucher.
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