The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1877-07-05

'oh'y uetofeu3 "iu are OtIIS Ine pay"
lnent of which is not prohibited by
the constitution of the State and Of
the United States, the the Treasurer
OF the county skall receive such bills
in payment Of all taxes due the State.
And it the jury shall by their YER
dict establish that the bills 80 tender~
cd are not genuine or valid bills of
the said corporation, Or that they
have been funded by the State and
since fraudulently uttered, or that
they are bills tho payment of which
is prohibited by the constitution of
the State and of the United States, it
shall then be the duty of the Clerk of
the said Court to cancel the said bills
in the presence of the conrt, aud to
make a scaled package of the bills
and file the same in his office with
the record of the case. ..
SEQ. 3. In all proceedings by
mandamus Or otherwise under this
act no costs shall be taxed or allowed
against the State or any officer rep
resenting the State.
Sec. 3. Nothing in this act contain.
ed shall preclude tho Treasurer of
any county from making such other
defenses to the proceedings by man
damus or otherwise as the nature of
the case may require.
SEQ. 4. All acts and parts of acts
inconsistent with or repugnant to this
act are hereby repealed.
Approved June 8, 1877.
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.
Section l. Be it enacted by the
Seuate and House of Reprcscntativ es
OF the State of South Carolina, now
met and sitting in Goneral Assom-
bly,, and by the authority of the
same, Thnt upon the petition of fifty
tax payers of any county in the State,
stating that said county is in debt,
and that the validity of said debt or
somo portion thereof is doubted and
challenged, it shall be the duty of
the Governor of the State to appoint
a commission, consisting Of three
competent and discreet citizons of
said county, to investigate and as
certain the true and real bona fde
indebtedness Of said county, who
shall report in writing to tho Board
of County Commissioners state. rent
of said bona hde indebtedness, and
shall also report toothe General As
sembly at its next session the amount
Of said bona fide indebtedness.
Sec. 9. That the said commission
shall have the power to send for per-
sons and papers, be authorized to
swear witnesses, and to call all per-
sons having claims to appear before
it, and establish such claims, after
due and sufficient notice, by publica-
ton of thirty days in the paper of said
county; that pending said investiga-
ton the proper officers of said coun-
ty and counties arc hereby directed
and restrained from lovying and COLI
lecting any special tax for the pay
ment of the said past county debt,
created prior to the first day of No
vember, A. D. 1876.
Sec. 3. That the members Of said
commission shall each bo entitled to
receive 50 per dion for each day ac-
tually employed in such work, not to
exceed in all thirty days.
Approved juno II, 1877.
An Act to provide tor the drawing
of jurics in certain counties, and
to amend the law in relation to- tho
drawing of jurics.
Section I. Be it enacted by the
Senate and House Of Representatives
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