The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-04-26

AN All to amend Chapter CVII, Title |
Fart LII, of the General Statutes, Relat
Ng to Attorneys, Solicitors and Counsel
Tors.
BE 1t enacted by the Senate and House
bot Representatives Of the State of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in General
Assembly and by the authority of the
same:
SECTION l. That Chapter CVII, Title
L, Part l, of the General Statutes, relating
to attorneys, solicitors and counsel lors, be
amended as follows:
Strike out Section 2 and insert the fol.
lowinar -ta-hA-kneann...-S. S.a,,a.~so.----..A
male citizen Of the age Of twenty -one-yea
having read law in the office of any practic.
ing attorney Of good standing in the State
for the period Of two years, or graduated at
any recognized law school in tho United
States, and shall produce the certificate of
a practcing attorney Of good standing in
this State that he is person of good moral
character, shall, on examination in open
court by three members of the bar appoin-
ted by the Supreme Court for that purpose,
who shall certify that he possesses the re.
quisite learning and ability, be admitted, if
the examination be satisfactory to the Court,
to practice in all of the courts of this State
as an attorney, solicitor and counsellor, upon
taking the oath prescribed by the Constitu-
ton"
SEs. 2. Strike out SECTION 4 and insert
the following to be known as SECTION 4:
"That no license to practice as an attorney,
solicitor or counselor shall hereafter be
granted except by the Supreme Court"
Approved March II, 1873.
AN ACT TO ESTABLISH AND CHARTER A
FERRY ACROSS BROAD RIVER AT
LoCKHART SHOALS, IN UNION COUNTY.
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 authority of the same,
That public ferry be, and is hereby, es-
tablishcd and chartered to reach across
Broad River at Lockhart Shoals, in Union
County, and that said ferry be vested in j.
Clough Farrar and Charles d. Farrar, their
heirs and assigns, for the term of twenty
one years, and that the following rates of
toll be CHARGED eollaatad .---Ear-AuAn
mules or oxen, fifty cents; for every carri-
age, wagon or cart drawn by two horses,
mules or oxen, twenty five cents for every
buggy, cart or vehicle drawn by one horse,
mule or OK, twenty cents; for every foot
passenger, five cents for every single horse,
mule or COW, five cents for every hog, sheep
or goat, two and half cents.
Approved March 1, 1873.
AN ACT Regulating the Mode of Conduct
ing Capital Executions.
BE At 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 from and after the passage of this
Act, when the punishment of death is in
fictcd upon any person pursuant to the SEN
tence of any Court, the execution shall take
place within the Jail or the enclosure of the
Jail of the County wherein such execution
shall be made if the same can there take
place in such manner. That no one shall
be allowed to be present at such execution
except the Sheriff of the County or his
deputy, and his assistants, the clergy, the
State Solicitor, the attorney or attorneys
who defended the convict. the family of the
convict, and not more than ten discreet per
sons to be named by the Sheriff; which
said ten persons shall be summoned by the
Sheriff and be required to be present.
Approved March l, 1878.
AN ACT to Provide for the Assessment Of
Real Estate in the Several Counties Of
this State in the Year 1878.
BE enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives II of tie State of South Car
olina, nos met and sitting in General AS
scmbly, and by the authority of the same,
That an assessment of the real estate in the
Counties of this State shall DC made in the
year one thousand eight hundred and sew
cnty-cight at the same time that the assess
ment Of personal property is made, and in
the manner and according to the rules pre-
scribcd for tn, assessment of real property
in the Act to reduce all Acts and parts of
Acts providing for the assessment and tax
alton Of property into one Act and to
amend the same, approved March 10, 1874,
and the Acts amendatory thereof
Approved March l, 1878.
AN ACT to Prevent Public Officers from