Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-11-23
An Important Law.

reference to the auditing, aliotoing
and payment Of claims, and to require
| ualreports of dU claims audited
dUowed, and paid by them, to Le made
to hc Court Of General Sessions.
SECTION l. Be 1t enacted by tho Seuate
and House of Representatives of the State
OF South Carolina, now met and sitting in
General Assembly, and by the authority of
the same, That tho County Commissioners
of the several Counties Of said State shall
keep in their several Offices "Filc Book" /"
in which all claims, presented for their
consideration, shall be filod by their Clerk,
designating the date filed, by whom
presented, and to whom said claims be-.
longs, and the character aud amount Of
said claims. The said clerk shall also
number said claims in the order 10 which
they are filed, audited, aud allowed, from
number ono upwards.
Sec. 2. That the County commissioners
shall draw their checks upon the County
Trcasurers of their respective Counties, 10
payment of said claims, out of any funds in
the treasury applicable to the payment
thereof: Provided, That no such checks
shall be drawn by the said County Commis.
sioners until they shall have been formally
notified by tho County Treasurer that there
are sufficient fluids ia the County Treus-
ury applicable to tho payment Of such
checks.
SEC. 3. That County Commissioners and
County School Commissioners shall make
an annual report of ull claims filed, audited,
and allowed, and ordered paid by them du-
ring each fiscal year, to the Presiding
Judge at the first term Of tho Court Of
General Sessions for each County, which
shall be held after the first day Of January
in cnch year, which report shall be submit
ted by said Judge to the GrGud Jury for
their examination with tho assistance, if
necessary of some competent persons to be
appointed b. the Presiding Judge, at
compensation Of five dollars per day for caoh
day SO engaged, provided that no pay shnll
be received under this section for more than
four days. After examination the Grand
Jury shall report thereon to the Presiding
Judge any matter growing out of, or per-
toining to, said annual report, which to
thcm may seem worthy of the atteution of
the Court. The said report shall there
upon be filed By the Clerk of said Court,
aud kept as papers Of said Court for iuspcc,
ton by any citizen desrous of examining
| the same.
SEC 4. That the County Treasurers of
the several Counties of said State shall not
pay any claims against their respective
Counties upon orders OF County Commis-
sioncrs except as lcrcinbcforc provided for;
| and they shall make an annual report to
the Presiding Judge, ut the first term of
| the Court OF Genera! Sessions in their re-
| spective Counties, which shall bc held
after the first day 10 January in each year,
| OF the number, character, and amount of
said claims paid by them on orders of
County Commissioners and County School
commissioners, aud to whom paid; which
! report shall be submitted by said Judge, to
the Grand jury for their examination,
/ and shall be filed by the Clerk of said
Court, and kept in his Office for public
inspection.
SEC. S. That if after examination of
said reports Of County Commissioners,
County School Commissioners, und Treas.
uiers, the Grand Jury shall find any dis
crepancies between the reports, or any
irregularities therein, or any cmbezzIcments
OF o. extravngancies in the expenditures OF
public funds, they shall present the same
to the said Court, and orders shall be taken
thereon as shall meet the ends Of justice.
SEC. 6. That said reports Of County Com
mssioncrs, County School Commissioners
and Treaaurcrs, shall be published at least
two weeks before the sitting of said Court
10y said officers or their several clerks in
somc newspaper published in said County.
SEC 7. That the County Commissioners
of the several Counties Of said State shall
Oh or before the 10Th day of November of
each year, make report to the Comptroller
General of the number, character and
amount of claims audited, allowed and
ordered to be paid by them or the fiscal
year ending on 3lst Of October preceding
s"id 18th day of November, TO be by HIN
submitted to the General Assem-
bly, lor their information in his
annunl report; and all claims against a
County not presented during the fiscal year
in which they are contracted, or the next
thereafter, shall be forever barred. They
shall also make out in said report an cs:.
mate Of tho amount Of money which it will
be necessary to raise by taxation in their
several Counties for County purposes for
embodied in the Comptroller Generals
annual report to the General Assembly.
SEC 8 That any violations of tho iorc-
goiug Sections by the County Commission
crs, County School Commissioners and
Comfy Treasurcrs, shall bc deemed
misdemcanor and upon conviction thereof
in the Court of General Sessions. the party
so offending shall DO sentenced, by the
prcsidin. Judge bcfurc whom convicted,
to pay fine of not less than ono hundred
dollars, or be imprisoned n the County
Jail not less than one month. 1t shall
also be the duty of the several Circuit So
lici'ors to prosecute any violation of this
Act.
Sec 0 That this Act shall not take cf-