The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-08-09
Acts Passed by the General Assembly
at the Extra Session of 1877.

Acts Passed by the General Assembly
at the Extra Session of 1917.
AN ACT to investigate and ascertain the
actual bona fide indebtedness of the
various counties in this State, and to
regulate the manner of paying the
same ~, = s;ii..irtlli
SECTION l. Be 1t enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State
ofSouth Carolina, now met and sitting
in General Assembly, and by the author.
ity of the same, That upon the petition
of fifty taxpayers of any county in the
State, stating that said county is in debt,
and that the validity of said debt OF some
portion thereofis doubted and challenged,
it shall be the duty Of the Governor of
the State to appoint a commission, con-
sisting of three competent and discreet
citizens of said county, to Investigate and
ascertain the true and real bona tide in
debtedness of said county, who shall re-
port in writing to the board of county
commissioners a statement of said bona
fde indebtedness, and shall also report
to the General Assembly, at its next ses-
sion, the amount of said bona tsde indebt-
eGness.
SEC. 2. That the said commission shall
have the power to send for persons and
papers, be authorized to swear witnesses,
and to call all persons having claims to
appear before it, and establish such
claims, after due and sufficient notice, by
publication of thirty days in the paper of
said county; that pending said investi-
CATION the proper officers ofsaid county
and counties are hereby directed and re-
strained from levying and collecting any
special tax for the payment Of said past
county debt, created prior to the6rst day
of November, "a. ID. 1876.
Sec. g. That The members of said COM
mission shall each be entitled to re-
ceive 50 per diem for each. day actually
employed insshch work, not TO exceed in
all thirty days.
Approved June II, 1877.
AN ACT to Amend an Act entitled Gan
Act Supplementary to Chapter XIV,
Title ~, Part +, OF the General Sta
tutes of South Carolina, Relating to
the Militia, aud for the Better Organi-
zation and Government of the Same."'
SECTION i. BE it resoFvea 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 seNa-
tional Guard, }" the Governor, as comman7
der-in-chief, is hereby authorized to re-
ceive all such bodies Of citizen soldiery
as may have rendered; or, may hereafter;
tender, their services to the State to con-
stitute they Yolunteer State Troops, and
TO consist-ofs such. companies, battalions,
regiments, brigades and divisions as may
be organized by the authority of the
commander.in-chief.. These troops to.
uniform themselves, and to be subject TO
all such regulations as may be prescribed
by the commander-in.chief, and issued
from the Office of the Adjutant and In
spector 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 inorder all the arms,
and munitions contained therein, whose
salary shall be $3.50 per annum. pa
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
revived 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
we're 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
holding any such State property, to file
in the Office Of the Adjutant and Inspec-
tor General full statement of such
property, with the authority under which
It is held and present condition thereof.
The Governor shall have authority to
permit the sale or exchange of any mill
itary property of the State for the pur-
pose 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 non
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 to which
he may be entitled in that organization
The said National Guard shall continue
to exist, and shall be separate and dis.
tinct body.
SEC. Z. All commissions issued from
the Office of the Adjutant and Inspector
General shall be charged for at the rate
of one dollar each, the funds thus raised
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