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

or shall fail to recognize ana O0ey tne
order of the assignment of the Chief
Justice or presiding Associate Justice, or
shall violate the 4th section Of this act,
upon any reliable notification of the
same, the Attorney General of the State
shall, by official communication, bring
such violation of fsthis act to the noticesof
the General Assembly at its first session,
and such. Circuit Judge shall be held
amenabled tosproeeedings for neglect of
duty, as provided in article Z, section 4,
of the constitution.
SEC. 6. That section 26, title 8 of the
code of procedure, chapter 122 of the
revised statutes, and all other acts or
parts of acts conflicting with the provi.
sions of this act, areIhereby repealed. \
Approved May 81, 1877.
AN ACT to prescribe the mode ef;proying
bills of the Bank of The State rendered
for taxes, and the rules of evidence ap-
plicable thereto.
| Whereas the corporation known as
sThe President and Directors of the
Bank Of the State of South Carolina" had
become insnlycut, and its bills had ceased
to be current as money prior to the lst
of January, 1868, and the General AS.
semb!y Of the State, by an act entitled
can act to close the operations of the
Bank of the State of South Carolina"
ratified the 18th day of September, 1868,
enacted tls, I'LL bills issued by said COR
poration piioE to the 10th day sof Decem-
bers 1860, ,be-hlnded, and ON the -surren
der and delivery Of said bills to the
|treasurer of lhe State, bonds of the State
Eshall be issued to the owner Of said bills
in payment: andT redemption; Of the
amount of said bills; and that "the 10th
section of the act ratified the 10th day of
December, 1912, entitled sAn act tofes-
tablish bank or behalf of aud for the
kbenefit of 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, due the State,
be and the same are hereby repealed;"
and under said act 81, ,260, 1915 of the
bills of the said bank were funded, and
bonds Of the, State issned therefor, and
the bills so funded were, BY joint resolu-'
ton of the General Assembly, ordered to
be burnt or destroyed, and there is reason
to- believe that said bills were not burnt
or! destroyed, butihay since been fraud
lently uttered; and whereas the plates
from which the bills Of the bank were
originally printed are net in the custody;
of the State, but are aud shaHe been for
years past beyond Che limitsof The State
and in the custody Of irresponsible par
lies, and there. is reason to believe that
forged bills Of the said bank have been
fraudulently printed and uttered; and
whereas, a large amount of the bills of
the said bank were, in the years 1861 and
1862, loaned to The, government of the
Confederate States, and the payment of
said bills by the State is prohibited by
| the Constitution of the State and of the
1United States; now, for the protection of
the State against bills of the Bank of the
State which are not genuine, or the pay
jment of Which is prohibited by the con-
Fstitution, or which have been already
funded by the State and have been fraud
ulently uttered:
| SECTION l. Be 1t enacted, by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State
ofSouth Carolina, now met and sitting
inl General Assembly, and by the author
itY of the same: That the treasurers of
the several counties in the State shall not
receive in payment of taxes to the State
] any bills Of the corporation known as the
President and Directors of the Bank OF
the State of South Carolina, which are
not genuine sand valid, the payment OF
which is prohibited by the Constitution
of State aud Of the United States, OF
which haye,been funded by the State and
since fraudhlently uttered And all bills
fsaid corporation which shall be ten:
dered in payment of any taxes; and shall
| not be received as payment, shall be in.
closed in package, sealed and signed by
the party rendering the said bills, and by
the treasurer to whom said tender is
made; and said package shall be depos'
tied by the treasurer with the clerk OF the
Court of Common Pleas for the county
who shall give duplicate certificates tc
the said deposit, one to the party tender.
ing said bills, and the other to the treas.
urer, to abide the decision of the court
in any proceedings which may be insti
tuted in regard to said bills; and thatin al
proceedings by mandansus or otherwise Z
compel the reception of bills Of the sale
corporation as legal tender for taxes tt
( 1.-the State and refused, an issue shall b.
Framed under the direction of the judge
and at regular term of the Court Q
Common Pleas for the county wherein
said bills are rendered, shall be submitted
I'd jury to inquire, and determine b.
their verdict, if the bills so rendered il
payment for taxes are genuine and vali'
bills of the said corporation, and hav
! not been funded by the State, and sine
: fraudulently uttered, and are bills, tn
payment of which is not prohibited b
, the Constitution of the State and of th
, United States. And upon the trial Q
said issue the burden Of proof shall b
. upon the person rendering the said bill
, Ito establish that the said bills are tn
= genuine and valid bills of the said corpc
f ration, and have not been funded by tn
3 State and since fraudnlentlyuttered, an
; that said bills are bills The payment c
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