The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-01-19

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AN ACT to provide for the revision,
digest and arrangement of the
Statute Laws of the State Of South
Carolina.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives Of the State
of South Carolina, no met and sit
ting 10 General Assembly, aud by the
authority of the same:
SECTION l. That iu pursuance of
Section 3, of Article 5, Of the Con-
stitution of this State three persons
learned in the law shall be appointed
by the convention Of the justices of
the State Supreme Court, aud the
circuit judges Of this State, whose
duty it shall be to revise, digest
and arrange under proper heads the
body of our laws of a civil character
general and permaneutiu their nature,
which shall be in force at the time
when they make their 6ual report,
following as far as practicable the uIeth-
cd and digest pursued in the volume
known as the General Statutes of
South Carolina; ). they shall likewise,
as provided in said Constitution, form
a Penal Code by making similar ar
raugement, revision and consolida-
tion of the laws of force 10 this State
relating to crimes aud the punish
luen: therefor; aud shall revise,
abridge and simplify the rules, prac-
tice, pleadiugs and forms of use in
this State in the trial of crimes aud
uisdemeanors.
Sec. 2. When said commission has
completed the revision, digest, con-
solidation, and arrangement Of the
statutes aud the formation of the Pen
al Code, as aforesaid, they shall cause
copy of-the sane, in print to be sub
mittcd to the General Assembly, that
the statutes so revised, digested, and
arranged may be reenacted, and the
Penal Code so formed may be adopted
and ratified if the General Assembly
shall so determine; and at the same
time they shall suggest to the General
Assembly such contradictions, omis-
sions aud imperfections as may ap-
pear in the ori ginal text, with the
mode in which they have recouciled,
supplied and amended the same. and
they may also designate such statutes
or parts of statutes which in their
judgment ought to be repealed, with
the reasons for such repeal.
SEC. 8. The commissioners shall be
authorized to cause their work to be
printed in parts as fast as it may be
ready for the press, and to distribute
copies Of the same to members of the
General Assembly, to the judicial
officers Of the State, and to such other
persons in limited numbers as they
may SEE fit, for the purpose of obtain.
ing their suggestions; and they shall
report frou, time to time to the Gene
raj Assembly their progress and do
ings.
Sec. 4. The statutes so revised,
digested and arranged, and the Peoal
Code so formed shall, if practicable,
be reported to the General Assembly
at the beginning Of its next session 10
November, 1881. :
SEC. 5. That each member of the
said commission shall receive, as CON-
peusation for his services, the sum of
$4,000 They shall also receive for
reasonable expenses Of clerical ser.
vices, books, printing, stationery and
other necessary aud incidental matters
an allowance not exceeding the sum of
$500, said expenditures to be ac-
counted for to the Comptroller Gene
raj on proper vouchers.
Sec. 6.'That the public printer
shall and hereby is required to do
such printing as the commission shall
require in the discharge Of its duty.
Approved December 81: 1880.