Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-12-14

following bills were rejected:
Bill to prohibit the ssle Of liquor in the
town of Ridgeway
Bill to make the pay certificates Of GER
tain constables attending the Circuit Courts
receivable for county taxes.
Bill to fix the time FROM which judy
menus Of tho Circuit Courts shall date.
Bill to amond tho Statutes relating to
Trial Justices.
Bill to prohibit the salo of liquor iu the
town Of Elko.
Bill to declare the rights of mortgages.
A petition from various counties was
presented asking an amendment to the con-
stitution requiring voters to presout their
poll tux receipts before being allowed to
vote.
A bill to amend the General Statutes,
BY adding provision relating to the ap-
pointmeDt aud compensation of superin-
tondent ofhighSays wos killed, ss also was
bill to protect livery stable Keepers.
A general bill to further regulate the
sale Of liquors was mado the special order
for "Wednesday
a bill to make tho pay certificates of
jurors and witnesses as preferred claims
was lost, as also was bill to provont fraud
ulcnt chattel mortgages.
Bills rati,yiug the amendments to tho
constitution passed tho second reading.
a bill was Introduced to form a now
county Of portions of Edgcfield and Lex
iDgton counties to be called Saluda county.
The railrOnd committee reported favora
bly, On the Smy,ho railroad bill with amend
ment Several members of the committee
made minority reports against the bill, as
conveying to the commissioners powers too
great aud liable to DO abused; as violutse
Of the constitution and us an attempt to
delegate powers delegated to the Lesisla-
turc.
Tho amendments proposed in tho House
coutain one setting out that one ot the co'u
mi>siuucrs shall come from one OF three
groups OF counties and that no member OF
the General Assembly shall bo eligible a.
cOmtisslnntr.
n seunud bill to repeal the lieu law was
reported
Notice was given of bill to amend IT, c
Geucral Statutes relating to legal holidays.
a bill to provide compensation Tor
coroncr's juri,s.
A till To amend the law in relation to
fees of Probate judges
A bill to prohibi, the sale of liquor in
the city Of Spnrtanburg and u bill TO form
n new county to be known as Ninety Six.
The bill to protect tho people in tho sale
Of kerosene vi, WAS killed aud substitute
introduced.
a bill will be introduced to create n new
county from lortiuns Of Colleton and Berke.
ly, to be known as Dorchester. The county
will have 75O square miles aud be strongly
! Democratic.
SArURpY, December 8 In the Senate "a
committee was appointed to sit during the
recess and examine and report on the Trial
Justice system und with view to the sub.
stitutioa of county courts therefor.
A bill approprinting $4,000 and the
labor of 250 convicts for the more speedy
completion Of the Columbia Canal was re
ported fnvorably a similar bill was re-
~"Tad 9arS@rpIss Yin in lhhai lhictl ctlQ@Hss @ssss q
from the consideration Of the petition Of
q. Y. Wall, of llorry, asking for divorce.
Ito committee state they are not prepared
to recommend general divorce law aud
see no means of relieving the petitioner,
though his case is hard ono.
The Judiciary Committee by vote Of
ito reported tavorabIy on bill relating
to interest. The bill virtually rcpcas the
usury law, as while leaving legal rate at T
per cent, it provides that any rate of inter
est may be agreed on by tho parties.
viii such bill pass either or both
Houses! Arc we not as people suf.
llclently divided on past questions of lcgis-
lation, that the Legislature must throw
another firebrand among usY Having tried
unrestricted interest Tor ten years and
found it injurious, will we return TO it?
We have more confidence in the conscrys.
tism and good seusc of "ur Legislature than
to believe the bill will pass. We consider
it the worst Of I'll bad laws, adding power
to capitalists to the Injury of every
industrial interest.
number of incorporation and other
bills passed 'hc second reading and several
new measures introduced, among them a
bill to puy managers &c., for tho last and
all future elections.
In the llouse but few matters of impor
tance were acted on. y number of bills
were reported unlavoraby and fifteen new
bills introduced, very few being Of pubic
interest.
A bill to authorize the City of Anderson
to divert its bonded subscription to the
Savannah Valley Railroad to the Atlantic
and French Broad Road upon a vote of the
citizens of the city wns INTRODUCED
A bill to exempt the property of mi i,ia
companies in this State from taxation was.
after long discussion, defeated by vote
81 to 3G.
a hill IN dcfino th, du,;oo of F,,>,os