Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-12-22
The Work Of the Session.

The Work Of the Session.
The Charleston Neos and Courier gives
the following as the rcsnts of the work O
tho Legislature.
Alter session of one month the General
Assembly will adjourn on the Goth. for q
Christmas recess, and will moot again on the
llth of January. A majority of tho mem
bers OF both Houses, together with tho Gov
ornor and several Of tho Stato officers, will
mako an official visit to the Atlanta Exposi.
tion. They will leave Columbia at o'clock
Tomorrow morning.
The fact that session after Christmas was
seen to be inevitable at the end of the first
week OF tho session has had bad effect,
Not half much work has been accomplished
as was done at tho last session in the same
period of time.
OF the measures of great Importance which
came before the Legislature in the reports Of
Special Commissions appointed nt the last
session not ono has been finally acted upon
The Revised Statutes and tho Codc, aggro.
eating about 1900 pngcs of print, have been
sead ssa M fsss'y acy isFsags. en- Il. 4 Bs.s
hundred pages remaining to be read TO- day
The report of tho Commission with their
revision of their statutes has been treated
as on ordinary bill, and a suspension Of the
rules will be asked for on the third reading
80 that tho bill may be read the third time
by its title. After the recess the whole Of
this vast amount of matter will have to be
read in tho Senate.
The bill to alter the Election laws and pro.
vide for registration of electors has passed
the Senate and is now on the. House Calcn-
dar, 1t will not be reached there until after
the recess
The bills suggesting amendments to the
Constitution and for providing for the call Of
Constitutional Convention arc before the
House, and will not be reached until after
the recess. Ono Of these bills, which pro-
vidos for the calling Of Constitutional Cons
vention passed tho Senate by majority Of
one. The majority of tho House are at
present opposed to calling Constitutional
Convention.
The Railroad bill has passed the Senate and
is now in the House. 1t is probable that it
will pnss its second reading in the House to-
day. 1t cannot bo finally acted upon before
tho recess.
Tho military bill has passed both Houses,
but the Senate amendments have yet to be
acted upon by tho House. The probability
is that they will oil bo concurrcd in by the
House.
The stock law which has, during its dis
cussion, created great interest all over tho
State, and especially in tho lowor tier Of
counties, has finally passed both houses and
only remains to be ratified. Tho law. rs
passed, goes into general operation on tho 1st
of April in all tho counties of tho State,
except Charleston, Beaufort, Aiken, Lexing-
ton, Colleton, Hampton, Williamsburg,
Orangeburg and Chesterfield, which counties
arc excepted from the operations of tho law
until the 1st of October next. The owners
of stock in the counties excepted arc liable
however, after tho lst of April, for any trcs-
passes committed by their cattle upon the
lands of adjoining counties.
The bill to abolish tho lien law, which also
was burning question in tho earlier part
tho session, was lost.
Other measures finally acted upon by th'
Legislature up to this timo are in nearly
every instance of exclusively local or per.
sopal interest.
Forty-fvc acts and joint resolutions have
been passed and ratiicd-all of lcca
charactcr-cxccpt those above mentioned.