The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-01-06
The Work of the Legislature.

and has added to the StatuteS or oOuln
Carolina one. hundred and twenty.three
new laws, besides electing q Circuit
Judge, Comptroller. General and the
Superintendent and Directors of the
State Penitcntiary.
When the General Assembly convened,
the four subjects Of paramount .impor-
tance which were expected to come be-
fore it were the repression of intenper-
ance, the suppression of the habit OF
carrying concealed weapons, the amend
ment to the laws relating to duelling,
and the enactment of measures looking
to the better conduct of elections. Upon
the first three of these subjects the Leg
islature has acted definitely and posi-
lively.
The anti.whiskcy law it is hoped will,
at least, decrease the number of bar
rooms, lessen the opportunities of getting
drink, and, in proportion, diminish
drunkenness. Should this hope be dis
appointed the law Will, at least, afford
revenue which can be applied to the re-
duction of general taxation.
All the measures relating to q remod-
Cling of the election laws of the State,
as we'll MS propositions to amend the
Constitution have been referred to a
Commission raised for the purpose Of
considering them during the recess.
Their reports will come before the Leg
islature at the next session. The Com
mission to which the registration bill, as
we'll as all other cognate measures, have
been referred consists of Messrs. r. B.
Murray, Edward McCrady, Jr., G. j. G..
Hutson, ]. w. Gray and Andrew Craw
ford, and Senators Perry, Lartigue and
Maxwell. The Commission is author
lied to sit for twenty days during the
recess, and it is hoped will give the sub
iect such attention IS will enable the
Commission to place before the Legisla-
turn at its next session such measures as
will give the required relief, and So meet
the approval of both houses of the Gen.
eral Assembly.
Among the most important of the laws
| which have been enacted other than
those above enumerated are the follow
ing:
An act ratifying the constitutional
amendment relating to the Homestead,
which was adopted at the last general
election.
An act to determine and perpetuate
the homestead. This act simply provides
the means for carrying out the constitu-
tional amendment.
An act to extend the time for the re-
demption of forfeited lands until May
next, upon the payment of the taxes and
penalties, without costs.
An act to provide fer the revision, di-
gest and arrangement of the statute laws
Of the State. This ac5 raises Il commits
sion of three persons, who are to be
elected by the Judges of the Supreme
Court and Circuit Courts, and who shall
codify the laws of the State and report,
if practicable, to the General Assembly
at its next session.
An act requiring all railroad compa-
nies in this State to construct and keep
in repair all adequate stock guard or
cattle gap at every point where the line
of railroad of any such company crosses
the line of any fence in this State.
An act enlarging the powers of the
City Council of Charleston to prevent
interments in the city without proper
certificate of the disease of which the
deceased died.
An act to provide for q -four inspector
under the direction and control of the
Charleston Chamber Of Commerce.
An act to prohibit the driving or roam
ing at large Of cattle or other stock from
North Carolina into certain counties bor-
dering on that State.
An act to amend chapter CXXXVIII,
of the General Statutes so as to give juris-
diction to the courts to try and punish
persons guilty of homicide when the de-
ceased may be wounded, poisoned or
otherwise injured in one county, and die
| thereof in another.
An act to aid and encourage immigra-
ton into this State by returning to i'm
migrants the taxes paid by them for FIVE
years on real property not exceeding
$1,000.
An act to amend the act to secure
landholders and persons making advan-
ces. This act provides that an index
shall be kept in the Office of the clerk of
court, in which index are entered all
liens on crops, and this indexing gives a
lien on the crop when the rent and ad-
vances exceed one.thied of the crop.
The landlord or person making advances
has had hitherto lien on one.tbird of
the crop without indeXing.
An act to bar the right and claims of
dover to a widow who accepts the dis
tributiye share of her deceased husbands
estate.
An act extending the time for funding
the unquestionable debt of the State SO
as to allow continuance of the funding
in new bouds of all the old bonds of the
State that come in under the consolida-
dation act.
An act extending until March next
the time in which bills Of the Bank of the
State may be funded.
An act to transfer to the department
of agriculture certain duties heretofore
pertaining to the Comptroller's office
with regard to phosphates.
An act creating harbor commission
for the bay and harbor Of Charleston.
An act to make it misdemeanor to
entice or persuade laborer to leaye the
employment of another.
An act to amend "an act to create the
department Of agriculture" so as to re-.
quire all dealers and shippers of phos-
pilates in this State to pay the privilege
tax per ton to the Agricultural Depart
ment, and in default to be liable to all
the pains and penalties in said act.
An act to provide for the appointment
of commission to amend and simplify
the mode of assessing ard collecting the
taxes of this State.
An act requiring the Governor 10 order
the recall of all leased conyicts upon sat
isfactory proof of their ill-treatment.
An act to provide for a public guardian
of the estates of minors, idiots and luna
tics, and to define the powers and duties
of such guardian and to fix his liability.
An act to alter and amend section II of
chapter CXVII of the General Statutes
in relation TN escheators nnd tn c0n(nr nm