Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-02-10
services in the Office of the County Treasurer of
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services in the Office of the County Treasurer of
Charleston, fifteen hundred dollars"
''SEc. 8. That the County Auditors of the sew
eral counties shall receive the annual salaries
County Auditor of Charleston, sixteen hundred
dollars the clerk of the County Auditor of
Charleston, one thousand dollars; the County
Auditors of Abbevile and Richland, twelve hun
dred and seventy five dollars each; the County
Auditors of Aiken, Anderson, Barnwell, Beau
fort, Chester, Darlington, Edgeield Fairheld,
Greenville Laurens, Newberry, Orangeburg,
Spartanburg, Sumter and York, eleven hundred
dollars each; the County Auditors OF Chester
field, Clarendon, Colleton, Georgetown, Horny,
Kershaw, Lancaster, Lexington, Marion, MARI
boro, Oconee, Pickens, Union and Williamsburg,
one thousand dollars each: Provided, That the
Comptroller General shall not issue to any Coun-
ty Auditor any warrant for salary until the said
Auditor shall le in the office of the Comptroller
General all abstracts and reports due from or oy
the said Auditor. And in addition to the salaries
of the Auditors, as hereinbefore provided, the
County Auditors shall receive, to defray the ex-
penses of assessments of property, SUCH sums as
may be necessary, but not to exceed the 1ollow-
ing, to-wit: The Auditor of Charleston county,
sixteen hundred dollars; the Auditors OF AbDe'
vile and Richland, nine hundred dollars each ;
the County Auditors Of Aiken, Anderson, Barn
well, Beaufort, Chester, Darlington, Edgeheld,
Fairfield, Greenville, Laurens, Newberry orange
hundred and fifty dollars each the County Au-
ditors of Clarendon, Colleton, Georgetown, Ker-
shaw, Lancaster, lexington, Marion, MARLBORO,
Oconee, Pickens, Union and Williamsburg, SIX
hundred dollars EACH the County Auditors OF
Chesterfield and Horny, five hundred dollars
each. And the County Commissioners OF the
several counties as aforesaid shall, upon the ap-
plication Of the County Auditors, draw their
checks on the County Treasurers for the several
amounts to which the Auditors may be entitled
under the provisions of this Section, and the
County Treasurers shall pay said checks from the
first collection of county funds of the fiscal year
in 1uh fho he narfOrmeQ.
such check or order shall be paid by the County
Treasurer until the Auditor shall have filed Wild
the County Commissioners an itemized statement
of the services rendered by his assistants, the
number of days each said assistants were en-
ployed and the compensation they were severally
to receive which said statement shall be exam
ined and approved by the said Board OF County
Commissioners Provided, That no member of
the Board Of County Commissioners shall act as
an assistant assessor
"SEc. 4. That the County School Commission
ers of the several counties in South Carolina, IN
lieu of an annual salary shall receive annually
commission of twenty per cent. per capita,
upon the whole number of children attending the
public schools in their respective counties: Pro-
vided, That in no county shall the said commits
sions exceed one thousand dollars per annum,
except the county of Charleston, in which county
the School Commissioner shall receive an annual
salary of twelve hundred dollars"
"SEC. 5. All salaries provided for IN sectlon l
of this Act shall be payable monthly, and be paid
upon the warrants Of the Comptroller-General, or
the State Treasurer
''SEc. 6. That all Acts and parts of Acts incon-
sstent with this Act be, and the same are hereby
repealed"
ly after its passage"
Mr.. White gave notice of the introduction
of bill to incorporate the town of Blacks
Station in York county and bill to remove
certain obstructions in public road, known
as the Armstrong Ford road, in York county.
In THE HOUSE, resolution to appoint a
committee to inquire into the official conduct
of Judge Montgomery Moses, of the Seventh
Judicial Circuit, was taken up and adopted.
THURSDAY, February3.
In THE SENATE, the bill to reduce certain
salaries was postponed and made the special
order for o'clock on Friday.
In THE HOUSE. Mr.. Livingstone, from the
committee to investigate the charges of Alfred
Aldrich, against c. P. Leslie, ex.land com.
missioner, reported that Leslie refused to be
examined upon any other points than the
single one, to wit: Whether the difference
between the amount charged to the account
of the land commission on the books OF the
treasury, and the amount actually expended
for land, or any part of it, went into his
hands The committee being unable to see
any value in an investigation of this kind,
asked to be discharged.
Mr.. Leslie got the floor, and said that had
he been dog he could not have been worse
treated by the commfttcev- -Rep1biiiran
party all over the State had been abused on
his account; abuse of him fell as thick as
snow flakes in connection with the land COM
mission, but Alfred Aldrich was the first to
swear to the charge that he stole S224,0 900.
He had invited the investigation from the mi
nority side of the house. On the committee
was one chancellor, one lawyer and one doc
tor, and they wanted to investigate his whole
life and not the specific charge made against
him the committee knew he was innocent OF
the breach of trust, but he wanted a general
investigation he wanted the Secretary OF
State, man who was no friend of his, ex-
amined but the committee refused, because
they could not 90 into the swamps of Will
liamaburg and Georgetown to investigate.
M. Hamilton suggested that Leslie agree
to have the committee Investigate all his
transactions.
General Wallace read the affidavit of Mr..
Aldrich, and claimed that it covered more
charges than one, and the committee desired
to investigate all charges growing out of the
land commission. Instead of treating Leslie
like dog, he was kindly received and treat
ed. He refused to be sworn in his own case,
and the committee wished to be discharged.
The speaker said that having heard the
Aldrich affidavit read for the first time, he
believed the affidavit charged general official
misconduct in the ex-laud commissioner, and
the committee could investigate all the
charges, and it was authorized to do 30. The
house. by vote, refused to discharge the
committee Gen. Wallace was relieved at his
own request, and Mr.. Orr substituted. Chan
cellor Johnston requested to be excused for
the reason that Leslie had alleged that he had
been treated like a dog by the committee.
The house refused to excuse him.
The special order was taken up. 1t was
the bill in relation to election commissioners
and managers. The third section was passed,
when Mr.. Freeman, Of Charleston, moved
that the enacting words of the bill be strick.
en- out. He said he had confidence in the
Governor, and believed the commissioners un-
der the new bill would be easier bought up
than under the present system. He looked
on it as the worst possible measure for his
race. After debate, participated in by Da-
Wis, of Charleston, Whipper and others, on a
call of the yeas and nays the enacting clause
of the bill was stricken out by vote of 56
yeas, 46 nays. Bates voted in the affirma-
tive; Steele in the negative. Col. Beatty and
Davis absent.
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