The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-02-03
THE LAWS OF THE STATE.
Important Acts of tho East General AS.
sembIy.


sembIy.
AN ACT to allow the State Superinten.
dent Of Education to uso fifteeu hun.
dred dollars Isl .600) of the sum re.
ceived from the Charleston Charitable
Association of the State of South Gar.
olna for the benefitof the Free School
Fund for tho purpose of conducting
Normal Institutes during the year
1881.
BE ii enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives OF the State Of South
Carolina, now met and sitting iu General
Assembly, and by the authority of the
same:
SECTION J.. That the sum Of fifteen
hundred ($1 ,5O0) dollars be, and the same
is hereby, appropriated out Of the fund
now in the State Treasury, which was
received from the fund arising under
Section 3 of an Act entitled IAN Act to
establish the Charleston Charitable Asso-
citation Of the State Of South Carolina
for the benefit Of the free school fund,
approved March 8, 1871" for the purpose
Of aiding in conducting the Normal In.
sti;utes in this State during tile year 1881,
under the supervision Of the State Super.
intendent of Education.
SEC. 2. That said sum of money shall
be paid by the State Treasurer on the
order of the State Superintendent of
Education upon ilia warrant of the
Comptroller General, aud the said State
Superintendent Of Education shall ac-
count for the proper disbursement thereof
by filing proper vouchers with the
Comptroller General before the meeting
Of the General Assembly in November
1881.
Approved December "a, 1880.
AN ACT 70 Transfer to the Department
Of Agriculture certain duties hereto
fore appertainine TO the Office of the
Comptroller General in respect to
Phosphates, Phosphate Mines, Mining
and Manufacturing.
Be Il enacted by the Senate and House
Of Representatives Of the State Of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in Gen.
cral Assembly, aud by the authority Of
the samc
SECTION l. That all the duties hereto.
fore apperlaining to the office Of the
Comptroller General in connection with
the interest Of the State in the phos.
pilates, phosphate minca, mining and
manufactures be, and the same arc here
by, transferred to the Department of
Agriculture, except that the Comptroller
General shall retain tho duty of receiv-
ing and filing the reports of rock mined
and dug, aud royalty paid into the State
Treasury.
SEC. g That all Acts and parts of Acts
Inconsistent with this Act be, and the
same are hereby repealed.
Approved December "a, 1850.
AN ACr to amend the Law In relation to
the granting of Letters Testumeniary.
BE il enacted by the Senate and House
Of Representatives Of the State Of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in General
Assembly, and by the authority of the
same:
SECTION /. Taa: Section !, Chapte7
LXXXVII, Title w, of the General
Statutes, be amended 90 as to rerI az
follows: That whenever deceased per.
son shall have lett n will in writing with
out having appointed ah executor there
in, or having appointed one or more ex.
ecutors, all OF them shall have departed
this life without having qualified there.
on; or, being alive, shall have refused TO
qualify; or some or all Of them having
qualified shall have departed this life.
leaving the estate not fully administered.
it shall bo the duty Of the Judge of Pro.
batc In whose court such will shall have
been proved to grant letters Of admins.
tration, with the will annexed, to such
persons as would have been entitled
thereto if the deceased had died intes,ate.
Provided, that slch persons shall take an
interest, present or expcctant, under such
will equal in value to the distributive
share to which they would have been en-.
titled had the deceu. ed died intestate.
Sec. 9. That Section 4, Chnpter
LXXXVIII, of the General Statutes.
'Of Administration" be stricken out and
the following inserted in lieu thereof.
"when an executor shall die" or when an |
administrator shall die, either not having
fully administered the estate in his hands. |
il shall be the duty of the Judge of Pro. |
bate nf the Count. IL sssi::cii lettrTs testu. |
mentary, or Of administration were first |
granted, to grant letters of administra-
tien, de bonis non, with tho will annexed. |
or of administration, dc 6onis non. OF the !
estate 30 unadministered.
SEC. 3. That no executor shall have |
authority, Us such, TO administer the |
estate of the first tes.ator; but on the |
death of the sole or surviving executor
of any last will and Testament, admins.
tration of the estate of the first testator.
not already administered, may be grant.
ed, with the will annexed, to such person
as would have been entitled thereto had
the deceased died intestate.
AN ACT to provide for the revision.
digest and arrangement of the Statute
Laws of the State of South Carolina.
Be il enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the Stale of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in General
Assembly, aud by the authority of the
same:
SECTION l. That in pursuance of Sec.
tion 3, of Article s, of the Constitution
of this State, three persons learned in the |
law shall be appointed by the convention
Of the Justices of the State Supreme
Court, and .he Circuit Judges OF this
State, whose duty it shall be to revise.
digest and arrange under proper heads
the body of our laws of civil character
general and permanent in their nuture.
which shall be IN force at the time when
they make their final report, following as
far us practicable the method and diGcs,
pursued in the volume known as the
General Statutes Of South Carolina they
shall likewise, as provided in said Con
s.::ation, fern. g Penal Cnde by making
O similar arrangement, revision and con.
soldation of all laws of furce In this
State relating to crimes and the punish.
ment therefor; and shall revise, abridge
and simplify the rules, practice, pleadings
and forms Of use in this State in the trial
Of crimes and misdemeanors.