The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-07-19

listing before the passage of said act are
hereby restored.
Sec. 2. That the powers and duties
formerly exercised by Magistrates, so far
as the same related to distress for rent,
be, and the same are hereby, conferred
upon Triak Justices.
Approved June 8, 1877.
AN ACT to amend sections IS and Sc,
chapter 120, of the revised statutes, re-
lative to liens on crops.
SECTION /. Be 1t enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State
of South Carolina, now met and sitting
in General Assembly, and by the author
ity of the same, That sections IS and Sc,
chapter 120 of the revised statutes, rela-
tive to liens on crops, and all amend
ments thereto, are hereby repealed on
and after the 1st of January, 1878.
Sec. 2. That all acts and parts of acts
inconsistent with this Act are hereby re-
pealed.
Approved June 8, 1877.
AN ACT to amend an act entitled can
act supplementary to chapter Is, title
4, part /, of the general statutes of
South Carolina, relating to the militia,
and for the better organization and
government of the same"
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the
State of South Carolina, now met and
sitting in General Assembly, and by the
authority of the same, That in addition
to the body of militia known as the "Na-
tional Guard" the Governor as Com
mander-in- Chief, is hereby authorized to
receive all such bodies of citizen soldiery
as may have rendered or may hereafter
tender their services to the State, to con.
stitute the Volunteer State Troops, and
to consist of such companies, batalions,
regiments, brigades, and divisions as may
be organized by the authority of the Com
mander-in- Chief; These troops to uni
form themselves, and to be subject to all
such regulations as may be prescribed by
the Commander-in-C Chief and issued from
the Office of the Adjutant and Inspector
General and published.
Sec. 2. The Adjutant and Inspector
General shall appoint an Armorer, who
shall take charge of the State Armory in
Columbia, and keep in order all the arms
and munitions contained therein. His
salary shall be $3.50 per annum.
Sec. 3. The organization known as the
Fourth Brigade, South Carolina Militia,
consisting of the Sixteenth and Seven
teenth Regiments of Infantry, the First
Regiment of Rifles, and First Regiment
of Artillery, with the Charleston Light
Dragons and German Hussars, shall be
received and embodied in the State Vol
unteer Troops. Officers of equal grade
shall take rank in accordance with the
period of time in which they shall have
served in any branch Of the military of
the State. The field officers of the said
Fourth Brigade, and their successors,
shall be deemed in law the successors of
the original field officers thereof, and shall
be entitled to hold and enjoy all rights,
franchises, and property which were OF
the said field officers thereof.
Sec. 4. Immediately after the passage
of this act, the Governor shall call in all
arms, equipments, and munitions which
are in the hands Of any persons not au.
thorized by law to hold the same, and
shall require all commands lawfully hold
ing any such State property to file in the
Office of the Adjutant and Inspector Gen
eral full statement of such property,
with the authority under which tits held,
and the present condition thereof. The
Governor shall have authority to permit
the sale or exchange of any military
property of the State, for the purpose of
obtaining other arms, equipments, or
munitions more suitable to the wants OF
the State.
SEC. 5. All field officers of battalions,
regiments, brigades or divisions shall be
elected by the commissioned and nom
commissioned officers and privates of the
same respectively.
Sec. 6. Nothing in this act contained
shall deprive any soldier or officer of the
""National Guard" of any right 10 which
he may be entitled in that organization.
The said National Guard" shall con.
tinue to exist, and shall be q separate and
distinct body.
SEC. 7. All commissions issued from
the Office of the Adjutant and Inspector
General shall be charged for at the rate
of 81 each; the fund thus raised to be de-
voted to defraying the expense of getting
in, repairing and reissuing the arms and
munitions belonging to the State.
Sec. 8. All acts and parts of acts in
consistent with this act are hereby re-
pealed.
Approved June 8.
AN ACT To amend section Is of chapter