Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-01-06
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THE WORK OF THE LEGISLATURE.

THE WORK OF THE LEGISLATURE.
The following is list of the Acts and Join
Resolutions passed at the recent session of tn
Legislature, Which are of general or local in
terest:
An Act to incorporate the board of trustee
of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Synot
of the South.
An Act extending until March next, tin
time within which bills of the Bank Of tin
State may be funded, and to provide the man
ner of funding the same.
An Act for the incorporation of trustees TO-
the Presbytery Of South Carolina.
An Act to provide for a public guardian o
the estates of minors, idiots and lunatics, ant
to define the powers ard duties of such guar
dian and to fix his liability.
An Act to determine and perpetuate tht
homestead. This Act provides the means OF
carrying out the constitutional amendment.
y An Act to charter the Monroe and Lancas
ter Railroad.
An Act to raise supplies and make appropri
atiOlls for the fiscal year commencing Novem
Der /, 1880.
An Act to make it u miSdemeanOr to elltice
or persuade a laborer to leave the employment
Of another, OF to employ a laborer under con'
tract with another
An Act to authorize and require the re-rrn.
ming and re-marking Il portion Of the bOunda-
ry line between this State and the State of
North Carolina.
An Act to conform I'LL Acts of incOrpora-
tions to charters granted under the general
laws to the provisions of the Constitution.
An Act to provide for the appointment of a
commission to consider and suggest amend
ments to the Constitution of the State.
An Act to make appropriations to meet the
ordinary expenses of the State Government
for the fiscal year commencing November l,
1880.
An Act to provide for the appointment of a
commission to amend and simplify the mode
of assessing and collecting the taxes Of this
State
An Act to amend Chapter CXXVIII of the
General Statutes. entitled 'of offences against
the person. and to declare the law Of homi-
eide in dueling, and to provide for the punish
ment of the same
An Act to bar the right and claim OF dover
to widow who accepts the distributive share
of her deceased husbands estate.
An Act to authorize the appOintment by the
Governor of a commission who; with the adju-
tant and inspector-general, shall constitute a
board to revise the militia laws of the State
and report to the next session Of the General
Assembly.
Joint Resolution authorizing and directing
the treasurer of York county to apply celtcin
funds to payment of coupons on county bonds
due January |, 1881.
An Act to amend the Act to secure land
holders and persons making advances. This
Act provides that in index shall be kept in the
office of the clerk of the Court, in which index
are entered all liens OH crops, and this indexing
gives lien OH the crop when the rent and ad-
vances exceed one third of the crop. The
landlord or person making advances has had,
hitherto, a lien on One-third of the crop with
out indexing.
An Act to aid and encourage immigration
into this State by returning to immigrants the
taxes paid by them for five years.
An Act to regulate appeals from Trial JUS
tices' Courts in criminal cases.
An Act to amend all Act entitled IAN Act
to prohibit the sale of seed cotton between the
time of the setting and the rising Of the sun,
and to regulate the sale of seed cotton" ap-
proved June 8, 1877.
An Act to provide a punishment for carry
ing any deadly weapon concealed about the
person.
An Act to further regulate the sale Of i'll
toxicating liquors in this State.
An Act to extend the time for the funding
of the rnquestionable debt of the State.
An Act for the incorporation Of the trus-
tees of the Presbytery of South Carolina.
Joint Resolution to authorize the Comp
troller General to dispose of certain railroad
and bank stock and 10 pay over the proceeds
to the Treasurer of York County.
An Act to require all railroad companies
in this State to construct and keep in repair
an 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 to incorporate the Rock Hill Cotton
Factory Company.
An Act to collect into one Act the modes
prescribed for the probate of deeds and other
instruments in writing which are by law re-
quired to be recorded.
An Act to ratify the amendment to Section
32, Article II of the Constitution of the State
of South Carolina relating to the homestead.
An Act to provide for the revision, digest
and arrangement of the Statute laws of the
State of South Carolina. This Act raises a
commission of three persons, who are to be
elected by the Judges of the Supreme Court
and Circuit Courts, and who shall codify the
statute laws of the State and report, If practi-
cable, to the General Assembly at it's next
session.