Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-12-09
THE SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE.
MONDAY, November 20, 1875.

In THE SENATE, bill to limit the charg
for certain legal notices received its thirt
reading and passed.
The Senate concurred in the House con
current resolution providing for the appoint
ment of committee to inquire into the fail
ure of the South Carolina Bank and Trus
Company. Messrs. Swails, Whittemore, Dun
can, Jones and Ward, we're appointed tn
committee on the part of the Senate.
The following bills were referred to appro
pirate committees: Bill to repeal the liel
gressional Districts; bill to amend the law il
relation to the bonds of sheriffs and judge
of probate.
A bill to authorize the quarterly paymen
of trial justices accounts against the county
was rejected.
A bill to amend the law for the protection
of useful animals, so as to prevent the hunt
ing of deer between February 1st and Sep
tember 1st of each year, was ordered to b.
enrolled for ratification.
In THE HOUSE, Mr.. Holland introduced {
bill to make it penal offense for trial jus
tices to change their domicile; also, bill tt
punish husbands for abandoning their wive
and children without sufficient cause.
Mr.. Jefferson introduced bill to author
ize and empower the State Board of Canvas
sers, together with the Governor, to appoint
remove and reappoint Commissioners Of Elec
tion for each county, and fixing the time fol
appointing the same.
Mr.. Connor introduced a joint resolution
proposing an amendment to the constitution
of the State of South Carolina, relative to the
term of sessions of the Legislature.
The enacting clause of bill to prevent il
licit traffic in seed cotton or corn was stricken
out. The bill was introduced especially for the
purpose of putting down, if possible, the night
traffic between the country storekeepers and
the cotton and corn thieves. The Conserva
tives and some of the white Republicans voted
in favor of the bill, but the black and tan
Republicans voted solidy against the bill
In other words, 6fty-four Republicans voted
to kill bill which looked to the abolition oi
cotton stealing.
The committee on ways and means, as q
substitute for the bill vetoed by the Governor
reported bill to raise supplies for the 6scal
year commencing November 1st, 1875. The
Columbia correspondent of the Neaas and
Courier furnishes that paper with the follow
ing information in regard to the bill
In the first section it provides that tax of one
and halfmills be levied to meet appropriations
to pay the salaries Of the executive and judicial
officers, and the clerks and contingent expenses
Ufthese departments. This is in accordance with
the Governors suggestion.
In the second section, to meet appropriations
for the penal and charitable institutions, tax o
one and a half mills is authorized. This is one.
quarter ofa mill in excess of the Governors esti,
mate.
In the third section, to meet appropriations fol
the support of public schools, a tax oftwo mills
is authorized, which is what the Governor recon-.
mended.
In the fourth section, for the expenses of the
General Assembly, in the place Of one mill, as
suggested by the Governor, the committee have
adlieda tenth of mill, making the levy in this
section and One-tenth mills.
In the fifth secton for public printing, halfa mill
il authorized in the place of the Governors sug-
gestOn of one third of a mill.
The sixth section, interest on the public debt,
remains in accordance with the Governors recon-
mendatiOn, at two mills.
In the eight section the committee have reduced
the Governors estimate for the payment of def
ciencios from two mills 90 one and nine-tenths.
The aggregate of these levies is ten and half
mills, nearly three-quarters of a mill above the
Governors recommendation. Besides this bill