Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1881-01-06
Further Legislative Items.

was dafeateQ InlS WuIeltner eHSctually
dispose of the canal humbug, or spur up
the Rhode Islanders to approving that they
mean business.
LAS wehaSe before Stated The whole
matter Of a Constitutional Convention
and q change in the Election Laws has
be. n reierred:to Committees to report at
the next session of the Legislature, and
whose reports, we imagine, will make q
lively time in both Houses.
An MISUNDERSTANDING been proposed
to the Anti Whiskey bill, giving the pro-
caeds of the State license to the towns in
stead Of the counties, Senator Callison
opposed it vigorously. He, for himself
favored total prohibition, and would like
to abolish these, cross roads doggeries,
but as q friend of this bill he opposedit its
e~masculation, and he hoped that it would
not be imperilled.
Senator Fishburne said that the whis-
key, in great part was by coun-
FRY people When they went to the towns
and tho county should receive the tax.
The general and legislative appropris-
ton bills amount TO. some S7S5, 900, and to
inset this a State tax of S mills has besn
levied.
The committee on the Yorktown Gem
%t.nniai recommended that q battalion of
go men from this State be sent there,
together with The Governor, five aids de
camp, Tie Stats officers and Supromeand
Circuit Court Judges, the State 70 foot
the bill from the 5000 appropriation.
Adopted.
The bill requiring Of toll bridg-
es TO keep them lighted at night, was con-
tinued to next session.
DIR. Strom's bill to make it a misde-
meanor to entice or persuade a laborer
t, leave the employment of another, or
t, employs iaborer under contract with
a lother, also passed. This is a very i'm
p ,rtant bill and will make labor more
reliable in the future. We will publish
the full text very Dor
MIR. Deuny's Stock Law Bill for Coop
er and Gray Townships.
Acting upon a petition wisely confided
to his hands by many citizens of Cooper
and Gray Townships, the Hon. Wllman
r. Denny introduced into the House a
bill asking that the Stock Law be ex-
tended over certain parts OF those Town
ships. This bill became a law. And we
will now attempt to define he territory
subject to- its. operations. The whole OF
Cooper excepting the small triangular
wedge running in between Coleman and
Dean, Eas. of Halfway-Swsmp Creek
and the Northern third of Gray, the line
running across from. Mr.. Nat Hesder-
sons, on the Abbeville line, to the Tom
Payne place, in the extreme South East
ern corner Of Cooper, and leaving Traps
Mill Il mile or two out. The Western
boundary of this territory is a perfectly
s!raighe lima, joiuing Abbaville, from Is
land Ford ID Mr.. Nat. Henderson's. Tho
S,ock,Law fence is to be built by the LIST
April, after which the law will go into
Immediate opera ion. And this is the
frs. Onward rush of the great tidal wave
which is evidently destined, ere long, to
| overflow the whole OF Edgcfield. AS
soon as we can procure the text Qf the
bill, We will publish it in foil.
Sc nator McCaiI's immigration Bill.
One of the wisess measures carried
through ut the late session was the much
discussed bill of Senator Mccall, of Marl-
boro, exelnpting Immigrants from taxa
ton. This bill provides for an exemp-
;ion from taxation, except for school pur-
poses, CT the real estate and invested cap
ital Of immigrants into the State for 8
years f.om their settlement.
The Amended Homestead.
Tn. constitutionalamendmen relative
t, the Homestead, which was voted upon
at the late election and a~doptefby a very
large majority of the people OF the State,
was ratified at the late session. In effect
it gives to the head of every family in
South Carolina II Homestead of one thou
sand dollars of real estate and five hun
dyed dollars of personal property. On
der the law as it formerly stood the
Homestead was the same-one thousand
dollars of real estate and five hundred
dollars of personal property, but under
the construction given by the Courts TO
the Act creating the Homestead, no ono
was entitled to Homestead who did not
own real estate, no matter what might be
the amount OF his. personal property.
Now, if one. has not real estate, he is still
entitled to five hundrel dollars Of per-
sonal property as a Homestead exemp-
ton. The Homestead clause is one Of the
wisest and most humane provisions o.
the Constitution, and the ratification Of
an amendment which will the better Sc
cure the people Of the State in the enjoy
msat of it is o step in the right direction.
Anything that will secure the rights Of
property and at the same time relieve
the wants of society is in the line of pro-
gress.
Miscellaneous. ",
The bill making an appropriation Of
$1,000 for the summe Normal Institute
in S%partsnburg, was passAd.
The appropriation Of sea, c63.16 for the
support and maintenance of the penal
institutions was increased to S+O,663.l6.
The appointment Of tho physician to
the Peuitentiary was left to the Superin-
tendent of that institution.
The appropriation Of $lS,tO for The OK
tension of the buildings of the Lun tic
Asylum was increased to 5000.
The expenses of tho Legislature is fig
ured up by the Register as follows: s ,572
a day s!97 an hour; 1928 a minute.
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Masonic officers.
The Grand Lodge Of Ancient Fee Ma
sons, in session at Charleston lately, elect
ed the following officers for the current
year: NJ. w. Bro. James, F...Iziar, M. ".
G.. Master: Il. w. Bro. John D Kennedy,
Deputy G. Master; r. ". Bro. w. w.
H%omphries, sr. Grand Warden; r. W.
Bro. ]. Adger Smyth, Junior Grand War
den; T.. W. Bro. John H. Honour, Grand
Tr%easurerIR.. W. Bro. Charles Inglesby,
Grand Secretary; Il. W. Bro. OF Greg
III u