The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-01-23
THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

AN Acr to provide for the investment and use
of the Agricultural College Fund.
SECTION l. BE it enacted by the Senate and
House Of Representatives Of the State Of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in General AS
sembly, and by the authority Of the same:
That in accordance with the stipulations en-
tered into with the United States BY this State
accepting and receiving the donation of land
scrip for the endowment Of enc or more colleges
for the promotion Of agriculture, and mechanic
arts, the State treasurer be and is hefSoy 'nu-
thorized and required to issue to the Board of
Trustees of the University Of South Carolina
certificate of State stock in the sum of S19l,-
oOO bearing interest ut the rate of six per cent.
per annum from July lst A. D., 1879, payable
semi-annually, to be held by the University of
South Carolina as perpetual fund, the capital
of which shall remain forever undiminished, to
be used by said Board of Trustees solely for the
purpose for which the said land scrip was orig
inally donated by the acts Of the Congress Of
the United States in relation thereto. The said
certificate of stock 10 be held in lieu and instead
Of the Agricultural College bonds formerly con-
stituting the Agricultural College fund under
eral Assembly Of this State in relation to the
same, and heretofore used by the financial agent
for general State purposes.
SEC. 2 That the board of trustees Of the Uni
versity are hereby authorized to establish Col
lego of Agriculture and Mechanics for the ben
eft Of the white students, in addition to the
South Carolina Agricultural College and Me-
chanics Institute, new in operation for the ben
eft of the colored students, and to maintain the
said colleges out of the income of the said fund
ani to use the property and grounds Of the Uni
vcrsity of South Carolina at Columbia in such
manner and so far as deemed necessary for the
purpose aforesaid.
SEC. 3. That the said board of trustees is au-
thorized to establish scholarships in the said
College Of Agriculture and Mechanics from time
to time. to be enjoyed equally by students from
the various sections of this State either by coun-
ties or Congressional districts as the income of
the said college may justify. And the said
board Of trustees may also establish similar
scholarships to be enjoyed by the white male
graduates of the chartered colleges of this State
according to q system to be arranged by the so id
board, so as to give each college IN equal share
in the enjoyment of said scholarships in proper
ton to the number of white graduates, and the
said board Of trustees shall in establishing such
scholarships provide for the collection and ar-
rangement of statistical and general information
con cerning the agricultural, mechanical and
mineral resources OF this State, and tuition in
thu said. college shall be free to all students
whose parents reside In this Stnto.->
Approved December %, 1879.
An ACT to prevent and punish the Intermarry-
ing Of Races.
House Of Representatives of the State of South
Car olina, now met and sitting in General Assem-
bly,. and by the authority Of the same:
That from a91kafter the passage of this Act it
shall be unlawful for any white man to inter
marry with any woman Of either the Indian or
negro races. or any mulatto, mestizo or half
breed, or for any white woman to intermarry
with any person other than white man, or for
any mulatto, haf-b, eed negro, Indian, or NEST
izo to intermarry with white woman. And
any such marriage or attempted marriage shall
be utterly null and void and Of none effect.
SEC. 2. Any person who shall violate the first
section Of this Act or any one Of the provisions
thereof, shall be guilty Of q misdemeanor, and
on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine
Of not less than $500, or imprisonment for not
less than twelve months, or both the discretion
Of the Court.
SEQ. 8. That any clergy man, minister Of tho
gospel, magistrate, or other person authorized
by law to perform the marriage ceremony, who
shall knowing by and wilfully unite in the bonds
Of matrimony any persons Of different races as
above prohibited, shall be guilty of q misde.
meanor, and upon conviction thereof shall
be liable to the same penalty or penalties provi-
ded in the preceding section.
Approved December IL, 1870.