The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-01-25
LAWS OF THE STATE.
Some of the Work of the Recent Session
of the Legislature.


Some of the Work of the Recent Sessio,
of tI.e Legislature.
An Act to amend Section 2,4S2 of th
General Statutes of South Carolina
Relating to HOUSEKEEPING.
That Section 2,4S2 of the Genera
Statutes Of South Carolina, relating K
housebreaking, be amended so as tt
read as follows:
s'Section q 1872 Every person wht
shall break and enter, OF who shall breal
with intent to enter, in tie day time
any dwelling-house or other house, o.
who shall break and enter, or shal
break with intent to enter, in the night
time, any house, the breaking and enter
iDsr of which would not constitute bur
gla.y with intent to commit felony o.
othe- crime of lesser grade, shall be
held guilty of felony, and punishable
at the discretion of the Court by impris
onment in the county jail or peuiteos siary
for term not exceeding one year.
TRIAL JUSTICE FEES.
An Act to prohibit Trial Justices who
receive Salaries charging or receiving
any Fees in Criminal business.
Section l. That from and after the
passage of this Act it shall be unlawful
for any salaried trial justice in this Stale
to receive any compensation foc theil
services in any criminal causes other
than his salary, or to receive for his Own
use any portion of his constable's fees OF
salary in any criminal causes whatsoever,
whether said causes are actually tried,
compromised or transferred Tor investi.
cation to the Court of General Sessions.
Section 2. Any trial justice Vino shall
violate the preceding section OF this Act
shall be deemed guilty OF nisdemeanor,
and, upon conviction thereof, shall be
fined rot less than fift2 dollars, and not
more than two hundred dollars, or i'm
prisoned not less than thirty days, and
not more than six months, or both fine
and imprisonment at tAo discretion OF
the Court.
OBSTRUCTION AND NAv1GATIoS.
Az At to prohibit the O truction OF
Navigation by Bridges over and across
Rivers in this State.
Section !. That no persol or persons
or corporations in this State, shall keep
or cause to be kept, put or caused to be
placed, any bridge over and across any
of the navigable rivers within this State
so as thereby to iniure Or obstruct the
free navigation of said rivers, and every
such person or persons or corporation SO
offending shall forfeit, for each and every
such offence, the sum Of two hundred
dollars for each day that such bridge
may he SO kept, or remain as an obstruc-
ton to said Tree navigation, for the use
of the State.
Section 2. That any railroad company
or other corporation in this State, which
may now have any bridge over and
across any navjgable river in this State
too low for the purpose OF free and un-
obstructed navigation be, and they are
hereby, required to remove the same, or
to so construct and manage draw spans
in said bridges as will secure safe and
unobstrucGed navigation OF said stream,
which said spans shall be not less than
sixty feet in width in the clear, and shall
be properly located with reference to
deep water and the convenience of navi-
cation, and shall be provided On both
sides of the span with strong and suita-
bic binders extending not less than one
hundred end fifty feet above, and not
less than eighty feet below the bridge,
and rising above ordinary high water
mark to within rot less than one foot Of
the lower cords OF said spans. And upon
failure to 90 so, said railroad company
or other corporation shall forfeit for
each and every day that said bridge may
remain too low for free and uno5structed
navigation the sum Of two hundred dol
lars, for the use of the State; Provided,
That this Act shall apply only to such
as are now navigable by steam boats or
may hereafter be made so.
Section 3. That this Act shall go into
effect and become a law within six
months after the approval of the same.
Section 4. That Acts and parts of Acts
inconsistent herewith are hereby re-
pealed.
TENANTS NOT TO 1NJURE PROPERTY.
An Act to amend Section 2,4S5 of the
General Statutes of the State in rela-
lation to Burning or Cutting Unten-
anted Houses.
That Section 2,4S6 of the General
Statutes of this State be, and the same
is hereby, amended so that said section
when amended shall read as follows;
sSection 2,4S5. Whoever shall malici-
ously, unlawfully and wilfully burn or
cause to be burned, cut or cause to be
cut Or destroyed, any untenanted or un-
finished house or building of any frame
or frames of timber Of any other person,
made and prepared, or hereafter to be
made or prepared, for or towar?s the
making of any house or houses, so that
the same shall not be suitable for the
purpose for which it was prepared; and
any tenant or tenants at will, for years
or for life, who shall wilfully and malici-
ously cut, deface, mrtilate, burn, de-
stroy or otherwise iniure any dwelling
house, outhouSe, erection, building or
crops then in the possession Of such
tenant or tenants, shall be deemed guilty
of misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by fine or i'm
prisoameIt, or both, IN tho discretion OF
the Court.
FOHBIODING COCK-FIGHTING.
An Act to punish Cock-fghting within
three miles of any chartered institu-
ton Of learning in this State.
That it shall be misdemeanor for any
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