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treasury as herein provided when needed.
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treasury as herein provided when needed.
SEC. 10. Any surplus arising from the
privilege tax on sale of guano, which is
not necessary for carrying cut the Act
creating the South Carolina board Of
agriculture, is hereby appropriated to the
Agricultural and Mechanical College of
the State of South Carolina, and the
same shall be drawn from the treasury as
herein directed.
SEC. 1G. That nil the moneys received
by the State from the phosphate royalty
over aud above the sum Of 5000, 900
annually are, and the same arc hereby,
set apart and reserved and appropriated
for the purpose Of enabling the said
board of trustees to establish, organize
and maintain the said College, and the
said board is hereby authorized and
directed to commence the work OF estab.
fishing said College as soon as the sum of
$4,000 shall have been accumulated as
aforesaid.
SEC. II. The board of trustees herein
appointed, as soon as practicable, shall
procure, by purchase or donation, a site
for the location of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College of the State of South
Carolina, together with an experimental
farm thereto attached. In the selection
of the said site the trustees shall look to
the convenience of the people of every
section of the State, the proximity of said
site to other public institutions, supported
in whole or in part by the State, with
view to giving the preference to localities
least favored heretofore, and also the
facilities for going to and from said
College, the advantages and disadvan.
tages of the different sites proposed, and
shall locate the same where most adyan.
tages are offered: Provided, the location
shall be at a place known to be healthy !;
and, provided, that the trustees shall give
not less than ninety days notice, 10 three
newspapers published in the State, that
they will receive proposals from counties,
communities or persons, and examine
said sites before locating said College.
Sec. 18. That the board of trustees be,
and they are hereby, empowered to make
requisition upon the superintendent OF
the Penitentiary for any number of con-
victs not exceeding 100, to be used on
such labor connected with the erection of
the College as they can economically
employ, and the said superintendent
shall furnish such convicts and guards
for the same.
The above is, of course, only rough
outline of the bill which will be submit
ted to the General Assembly. 1t embra'
ces, however, the general scheme and its
details. 1t will be seen that the demands
are moderate, but are based on the doub'
ling of the phosphate royalty, q bill to
effect which is now pending in both
houses. Farmer Tillman is in the city
himself and is in earnest about his col.
lcgc. In conversation with the repro.
sentative of the Neacs and Courier this
morning he said that the farmers were
not willing to increase the taxes, but that
they felt the want Of purely Agricultu.
raj College, and expected the General
Assembly to give it to them if the ways
and means could be devised without
burdening the tax payers Correspon'
dence Neays and Courier, Columbia, Decen'-
Der 8.