The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-08-09

tnenAll fefnlS q SnS courts OtfOfse OF the
cir@uRs tf0s Hlie yeah 1877, commencing
with the First Circuit, and the Judge as.
signed to hold the courts Of the First
Circuit shall continue to be assigned 10
the other Circuits, in regular order, as
the Circuits stand in their numerical
series; and the other Circuit Judges
shall be assigned TO held tie terms OF
the courts of the otler circuits, as the
Chief Justice may select them, in tho
numerical order Of The circuits following,
30 that the Circuit Judges shall regularly
rotate in holding the terms of the courts
in all circuits Of the State.
SEC. 2. That between the first and
fifteenth Of December, 1877, and during
the same period Of each succeeding year,
the Chief Justice or presiding Associate
Justice from the said roster shall make
the assignment of Circuit judges to hold
the various courts in all Of the circuits
for the whole Of the succeeding year, in
such order asyill effect O. Constant inter.
change Of circuits - and Immediately
upon any such assignment, rs provided
in this and the preceding section of this
act, the Chief Justice or presiding Asso-
ciate Justice, shall cause official notilica-
ton to be given to the Circuit Judges of
the order Of their assignment, and shall
cause notice TO be inserted in two daily
newspapers, one in the city Of Columbia
and one il the city Of Charleston, for
two weeks, Of the order Of such assign
ment; and said notification shall be euf-
ficient notice TO the said Circuit Judges,
and they shall proceed TO hold the terms
Of tho courts in the circuits to which
they are respectively assigned, 1t the
times appointed by law for the various
Circuit Courts therein TO convene.
SEC. 3. Whenevef any Circuit Judges
pending his assignment to hold the
courts Of epy:oirouit, shall die, resign, be
disabled by illness, or be absent from the
State, or in case Of n vacancy in the
Office OF. Circuit Judge of any circuit,
the Chief Justice. or presiding Associate
Justice, may assign any other Circuit
Judge, diseDgaged. to- hold the courts Of
such circnits, or to fill any appointment
made necessary by suci, vacancy.
SEC. 4. No Circuit Judge shall absent
himself from this State without leave
first granted 10 writing by the Chief
Justice or presiding Associate Justice.
SEC. s. Any Circuit Judge who shall
fnil or neglect to hold the term or terms
of any Court of General Sessions or
Common Pleas in any circuit to which
ho may be assigned until the business Of
snid courts shall have been disposed of,
or the end Of the term or terms arrives,
or shall fail to recognize and obey the
order of the assignment of tho Chief
Justice or presiding Associate Justice, or
shall Violate the 4ti section of this net,
upon any reliable notification of the
same, the Attorney General of Tho State
shall, by official communication, bring
such violation of this act To the ro,ice Of
tho General Assembly ut it's first session,
and such Circuit, Judge sl,all Le held
nmenabled to proceedings for neglect of.
duty, AS provided in article 7, section 4,
of the constitution.
SEC. 6. That section 26, title 3 of tho
code OF procedure, chapter i22 of tho
revised statutes, and ri! other acts or
parts of acts conflicting with the provi-
sions OF this act, are hereby repealed. x
Approved May 81, 1877
AN ACT to prescribe the mode Of proying
bills Ok tho Bail; oc .!c State rendered
for taxes, and The rules of evidence an-
plicable thereto.
Whereas the corporation known rs
"The President and Directors Of the
Bank Of the State of South Carolina" had
become inaol,cnt, and its bills had ceased
to be current III money prior to the list
OF january, 1868, and the General AS
sombly Of .l,r State, by an net entitled
"An net /" close the operations of tho
Blink of the State Of South Carolina"
ratified tho 18th day of September, 1868,
enac,rl llLr lll bills issued by said cor.
poretiol} ntinr3 to the both day. Of Decem-
btrs $780,. M:,hlnded, 'and o. tho Burrcn-
der and deli ,ry of said bills to the
treasurer of ,le State, bonds of the State
shall be issued to the owner of said bills
In payment md redempticn Of the
amount sc -ait' bile, and that "theN 18th
section "f the net ratified the 10th day of
December, 1912, entitled 'An act to'iies-
tablish II bank on behalf of aud for the
benefit nf the State and all acts and
parts of acts which render the bills of
said corporation receivable in payment
of taxes and all other debts duo the State,
be and the same ere hereby repealed :"
and under said act 81, 1850, ,lS4.75 of the
bills of the said bank were funded, and
bonds of the, State issued therefor, and
the bills so funded were, by Joint resolu-
tion of the General Assembly, ordered to
be burnt or destroyed, and there is reason
To- believe that said bills were not burnt
or destroyed, but have since been fraud
ioiitiy uttered; and whereas tho plates
ir,.n which tEe BILLS OF the bank were
originally printed are not in the custody,
ofthe State, batA ord aud IhasA Aaeh for
years past beyond bio limitsoS the State
aud In the custody Of irresponsible par
lies, and there. is reason to believe that
forged bills oS :te said bank have been
fraudulently printed and uttered; and
whereas Q large amount Of The bills of
tho said bank wore, in the years 1851 and
1852, loaned to the, gpVernments of the
Confederate States, and The payment of
said bills by the State Is prohibited by
the Consultation cf the State and of the
Uhited States now, for the protection of
thp State against bills Of the Bank of the
.Sthta which are not genuine, or tho pay
;menr OF which ie prohibited by tho con-
stitution, or which have been already
funded hhJ the the SStts.s SSttss.s and have been fraud
ulently uttered:
SECTIoN /. Be IL enacted, by the Senate
ard House of Representative of the State
| ofISouth Carolina, now met and sitting
im General Assembly, and by the author
:t1 of the same: That the treasurers OF
the several counties in the State shall not
receiye in payment of taxes to tho State
any bills Of the corporation known as the
Pfesiden6 aud Directors of the Bank OF
tho Staee Of South Carolina, which are
not genuiSe land Wild, ahei hayment ,]
| which lie prohibited by the Constitution
ofthe State aud or the United States, oI
which have been funded by The State aud
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