The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-02-13
A Bill . Secure. Advances for Agri-
b. culturafP Purposes.

Bet enacted by the Senate and House
OF Kepresentatives2of the State of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in General
Assembly, and by the authority of the
same:
SECTION l. That if any person or
persons shall make any advances of mon
cy, corn, corn meal, corn fodder, hay,
oats, bacon, salt, pork, salt beet, salt tlsh,
molasses, guano, medicine or agricultu-
raj implements to any person or persons
who are engaged or about to engage in
cultivation OF the soil, the person or per-
sons so making such advance or advances
shall We entitled 10 a lien OH the crop
which may be- made during the year up
OH the land in cultivation of which the
advances so made have been expended
in preference to all other liens existing
or otherwise, except that when, under the
provisions Of this Act, advances shall be
made to a tenant or laborer, the landlord
OF such tenant or laborer shall have q
preferred lien to the lien created under
this Act or otherwise, and no portion of
the cropraised, Us is contemplated by this
| Act, shall he removed from the premises
OH which raised until the rent due the
landlord shall have been first paid and
discharged. Provided, an agreement i'll
writing shall be entered into before such
advance is made, in which shall be speci-
tied the quantity of each of the above
specified commodities to be advanced or
in which a limit shall be fixed, beyond
which the advances tt made from time
to time during the year shall not 80,
which agreement shall be filed in the Of
nee OF the Register OF Mesne C%onveyan-
ses in the County in which the person to
whom the advances are made resides
within thirty days from its date.
SEC. =. Itshall be the duty OF the person
or persons receiving such advances to de-
live to the person or persons making the
SAID advances, alter the paymentand salts
faction OF the lien for rent, If any exists, all
crops as rapidly Us gathered and prepared
Tor market, until said lien is fully salts
fed, alter which time the remainder o
said crops shall be freed from said lien.
SEC. 3. 1t shall be the duty OF the per-
son or persons making said advances
to apply the proceeds OF all crops and
portions of crops delivered by the person
or persons receiving such advances to the
satisfaction Of the lien h~ereinbefore au-
thorized. and to notify the person or per-
sons receiving such advances whenever
the same il paid and discharged.
SEC. &. LII CAST aly alteuipLS dAo .hIoC
to defeat the lien hereinbefore provided
for, it may be torecloscd in the manner
provided by law for the foreclosure OF
liens for rent. ..
SECS If either Of the parties to the
said lien shall violate the provisions o.
this Act, the party so violating shall be
deemed and held guilty of a misdemean.
or, and, upon conviction thereof in any
Court Of compete 1t jurisdiction, shall be
fined or imprisoned in the discretion O
the Court.
SEC. 6. That this Act shall be and re-
main of force, for two gears from the rati'
tication thereof. .,i,.. 49,.
SEC. 7. All Acts or parts Of Acts in
CONSTANT with or supplied by this Ac
are hereby repealed.
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES w. WATTS, Chairman.